Re: CVS rsync service is dropping some files

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The CVS rsync service, as described at
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/rsync.html>, fails to provide the
> directories pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/core/ and
> pgsql/contrib/retep/uk/org/retep/xml/core/. I guess there is an exclude list
> somewhere that thinks these might be core dump files. Could this please be
> investigated and fixed?

*sigh* - took me a while to recognize that it's actually the commandline
in the docs(anoncvs config is fine) that are resulting in that problem -
we recommend -C as an rsync parameter and the docs for that state:

-C, --cvs-exclude
This is a useful shorthand for excluding a broad range
of files
that you often don't want to transfer between systems.
It uses
the same algorithm that CVS uses to determine if a file
should
be ignored.

The exclude list is initialized to:

RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags
TAGS
.make.state .nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* _$* *$
*.old *.bak
*.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so
*.exe
*.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/

so this is actually a documentation bug - not an infrastructure bug :-)

Stefan