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

[David Allouche]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:49 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:44:28AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> > And you're right, -T - is much better than xargs, since xargs can't
> > be told to only split on newlines.
> 
> xargs will also divide it up into multiple tar commands if the number
> of files is too large to fit in a single command.  Oops. ;)

Yours truly actually bit the bullet once and came up with the _really_
correct way to do export and to create tarballs with tla, even for files
containing newlines in the names (even if some people think that caring
for those cases is pedantry).

http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Arch_20Recipes#head-777d973d8a18b72503cdf84fed81bd92522d899f

Those scripts might not be very portable, since they were written for
bash. Wiki edits welcome.

Also, these scripts will leave .arch-inventory files around.
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