Re: make bootstrap: need moral support. :-(

[Ken Raeburn]

On Feb 21, 2006, at 03:52, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> I don't know where/how to access the rsync server though.  A quick
> search in savannah.gnu.org and Google, doesn't reveal much.

I'm using something like this:

  rsync -azvH --delete --exclude "a?b,v" --exclude config \
     cvs.savannah.gnu.org::sources/emacs/. /my/emacs/cvs/mirror/.

The trailing "/." is an old habit, so I don't have to think about  
whether it's going to mirror "emacs" to "mirror", or mirror "emacs"  
into a subdirectory of "mirror"; it may work fine without them.  The  
"a?b,v" is because of a file with a ^L control character in its name  
(in an Attic subdirectory; it's a dead file, but the cvs->svn mirror  
code sees it anyways and gets unhappy); "config" is to get rid of  
CVSROOT/config which has some keywords that the cvs->svn code doesn't  
recognize.

I use VCP and SVK to do the mirroring (install both, use "svk mirror"  
to set up the mirror, "svk sync" to update), but SVN for most of my  
actual work.  VCP is a little finicky; the version I've got gets  
unhappy if your working directory is in NFS(!), but start it in a  
local /tmp and it'll be fine.

Ken