Re: checking 2240

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:35:17PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> has less potential to go wrong if there is a problem at any time.  I
>>> actually don't really understand why we bother with restoring the tree
>>> anyway instead of removing it and doing the next test from a freshly
>>> created
>>>   git clone
>>> directory.
>>
>> That loses the regtest baseline, and the whole point is to do a
>> regtest comparison.
>
> Copy it over.  Takes few seconds.  Something like
>
> cd /usr/tmp/checkoutwithbaseline
> find -name out-baseline -exec cp -a {} /usr/tmp/othercheckout/{}

Or
rsync -av --include="**/out-test-baseline/***" --exclude="*" 
checkoutwithbaseline/ othercheckout/

Either case we are talking about a one-liner.  And actually, doing
symbolic links should be good enough, and quite faster.  In which case
we are again talking find.

-- 
David Kastrup