Re: [Fab-user] Proposed changes to contrib.files

[Jeff Forcier]

Hi Bruno,

For reference, Github is not really the primary Fabric repository, so
if you ever want to get a clone of the code and GH is down, you can
hit up the canonical repo at git.fabfile.org (as mentioned here:
http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9/installation.html#source-code-checkouts)

Github does make collaboration easier, but it's not required :)
Especially not when they are having major post host-switch issues...

Regarding your changes, they look pretty good -- thanks for taking the
time to do this. I'll make a note of your patch and will probably
incorporate it into master once 0.9 final comes out.

Best,
Jeff

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Bruno Clermont <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> for some deployments, I had to write new operations and
> I decided to implement them into fabric.contrib.files.
> I wanted to share these changes, in case it's interesting enough to be
> integrated.
> Github is telling me that fabric's "Repository temporarily unavailable",
> I can't fork it, so here is it:
>
> Summary of changes:
>
> * new function is_dir(remote_path) : code from some load_template().
> * new function backup(remote_path):  also from load_template(), to force the
>  creation of .bak of a remote file|dir.
> * new function backup_and_put(local_path, remote_path): same syntax of put() 
> it
>  just call backup() before.
> * put_from_text(text, remote_path): sometimes, I want to create a remote file
>  from a string in memory only, it automate the creation of a temporary
>  file.
> * load_template() code that used to do backup and is_dir had been replaced to
>  use the new functions to simplify it.
>
> maybe, put() can have an optional backup=True|False parameter instead
> this new function.
>
> the patch is against master
>
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