Re: BZR local server?repo?

Hi,
  my 2c.

I use a more centralized approach:
bzr co bzr+ssh://remote.addr/repo
and then just bzr ci, optionally --local if I am disconnected.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Henrik Nordström
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tor 2014-01-23 klockan 09:53 +0200 skrev Eliezer Croitoru:
>> Since I do have a local server I want to have an up-to-date bzr replica.
>> I can just use checkout or whatever but I want it to be be updated etc.
>>
>> I am no bzr expert so any help about the subject is more then welcome.
>
> What I do is that I set up a shared bzr repository that collects the
> branches I want to monitor/backup, then have a cron job to update
> branches in there from their source repositories.
>
> bzr init-repo --no-trees /path/to/shared/repo
> cd /path/to/shared/repo
> bzr branch remote_url local_branch_name
> bzr branch ... [repeat per barach to mirror]
>
> then a cron job that runs
>
> bzr pull --overwrite
>
> in each branch to keep them updated
>
> The reason for --overwrite is to handle if/when history of the master
> repo is tweaked... This is optional, and without --overwrite you will
> need to manually recover the mirroring in such events, which is also a
> good thing as it alerts when something bad is done to the mirrored
> repository history.
>
> The reason for --no-trees is to be able to also push working branches to
> the same repository for backup purposes. And don't really need checked
> out copies of the sources of each branch on the server
>
> If server side checkouts is needed then it's easily created separately
>
> bzr checkout --lightweight /path/to/shared/repo/branch
>
> --lightweight is entierly optional, and depends on what you want to use
> the checkout for.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

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