Re: Merging two repositories?

[Leandro Santiago <leandrosansilva gmail com>]

Thank you, the pull-local approach has worked fine here :-)

On 8 June 2015 at 18:29, Dan Nicholson <nicholson endlessm com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Leandro Santiago
> <leandrosansilva gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello, let's suppose I have two different ostree repositories, repo1/
> > and repo2/. repo1 has a branch called version/1 and repo2 has a
> > version/2. Can I merge them using some tool like rsync?
> >
> > Will it corrupt the repository internal structure?
>
> I think so long as the refs are named differently, rsyncing one into
> the other should work fine on archive-z2 repos.
>
> > In my case the trees are created without knowing the previous trees in
> > the repository, and my idea is "manually" merging the new repository
> > with the previous one. If it works, I will again manually create the
> > delta between the versions when required.
> >
> > Based on a non-deep reading, ostree allows such approach, and I am
> > curently doing some experiments, but I would like to confirm there's
> > nothing wrong with the approach.
> >
> > If it does not work, my idea is checking out the tree created in the
> > repo and commit it in a new one, eve though this process is very slow
> > for performing unneeded steps. (I am using rpm-ostree for building the
> > trees).
>
> I think the best way to do this would be through pull-local, though.
>
> ostree --repo=repo1 pull-local repo2 version2
>
> One disadvantage of this approach, though, is that it only pulls the
> latest commit. I have a patch to add a --depth option to pull-local so
> you could add --depth=-1 for all commits, but it's against an older
> version and I haven't forward ported it yet.
>
> --
> Dan



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