Option to sync .git directory

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Option to sync .git directory

ajdavis opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis commented 5 years ago

I tried adding "--include .git" to the "mirror client" command line but it still seems to ignore the .git directory. I understand your reasons for ignoring it by default but I'd like to sync it. Is there a way to override the default exclude rule for .git?

Stephen Haberman · Answer 1 · Sun Jan 20 2019 04:52:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey; there is not now, but it should be easy to add, around in here:

https://github.com/stephenh/mirror/blob/master/src/main/java/mirror/Mirror.java#L221

Something like --ignore-default-excludes.

Are you up for submitting a PR?

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis · Answer 2 · Sun Jan 20 2019 07:01:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sure! Can you help me understand something first? (My Java's rudimentary.) What is the precedence of the "include" and "exclude" rules? Where's the code that applies these rules, so I can see how they interact with each other?

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis · Answer 3 · Mon Jan 21 2019 12:05:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Nevermind, I must not have been testing correctly before. It turns out that "--include .git" works as I desire. I've submitted a new test to prove that, if you'd like.

Stephen Haberman · Answer 4 · Wed Jan 23 2019 13:31:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@ajdavis haha, no worries, I had forgotten, includes do override excludes, because something might be .gitignored but for some specific reason you do want it mirrored. Thanks for reporting back!