[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla archive-mirror/ clone

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden> [Aug 23, 2004 14:42]:
> In the tutorial, the following command sequence appears to create a
> local mirror of a remote archive:
>
> % tla register-archive address@hidden $remote_location
> % tla make-archive --mirror-from address@hidden $local_location
> % tla archive-mirror address@hidden
>
> Is there any reason it wouldn't be good to combine these three commands
> into something like:
>
> % tla clone $remote_location $local_location
>
> It would seem at least superficially easy to shell script...

tla_clone:

#! /bin/sh

tla register-archive $1-SOURCE $2
tla make-archive --mirror-from $1-SOURCE $3
tla archive-mirror $1

Simple enough.  I have no idea why you would want to do this often
enough to warrant such a script, but hey...Furthermore, this took 20
seconds to write, I bet you could have done it too,
        nikolai

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