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

[Jens Ø. P. <oe...@gm...>]

On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Wolfgang Meier wrote:

>> 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.

I would love that: I have to sit and copy these files manually from my backup (from now on: webdav copy) to the webapp folder, level by level, file by file!

Jens

> 
> Wolfgang