Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cvs export for tla?

[Andrei A. Voropaev]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:36:48AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Andrei A. Voropaev wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >Is there a command for tla that does the same thing as cvs export. Ie.
> >it gets the sources but without any {arch} information?
> >
> >
> >
> I don't know that there is, but you can do:
> tla get package--branch package-0.1
> tla inventory -B -s package-0.1
> 
> (-B = --both -s = --source)
> 
> So you can do:
> 
> tla get ...
> tla inventory --unescaped -B -s package-0.1 | xargs \
>    tar cvzf package-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> There is a small bug in the above if you have spaces in filenames, as
> xargs thinks of them as separate files. You can use the escaped form,
> but that causes other problems, as then the name doesn't match the
> filesystem name.
> 
> A while back, I think there was another way of doing it, involving for,
> or while read, or something like that.

Thank you. I always forget about that inventory command. Though I've
adjusted your approach

tla inventory --unescaped -s package-0.1 |tar -cjf myarchive.tar.bz2 -T -

Note. -B flag to inventory causes all the arch files to be added to
archive :)

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