Re: [Exist-development] [Exist-commits] SF.net SVN: exist:[13998] trunk/eXist/webapp/repo/packages/library/mods

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

> Wolfgang - this sounds useful for folks like Jens who use the backup
> utility.  At the same time, is whitespace preservation one of the
> goals of the backup utility?  Is WebDAV perhaps the better route for
> this use case?

The backup utility dumps the XML as it is stored internally. No extra
serialization settings are applied. The backup is not really intended
for human consumption and is thus not the best tool if you want to
sync application code to the file system.

You are right that using the WebDAV or REST interfaces is a better
approach for this use case. The XML is pretty printed and you don't
have to remove the __contents__.xml files afterwards.

What I thought was to add a "sync2fs" utility, which could be simpler
than a backup and compares timestamps to determine which files need to
be written to disk.

Wolfgang