Syncview through CLI

[Occuros]

Are there CLI commands to define syncviews, similar to the Sync To cloud Tab?

 

Like adding dest repo, deleting dst repo etc.

[calbzam]

Hi,

I'm afraid the sync view is not available via CLI. But there are few options to keep two Plastic servers in sync via CLI:

http://blog.plasticscm.com/2012/02/after-accidentally-cloning-sexy.html

https://github.com/PlasticSCM/syncservertrigger

Please let us know if it helps.

Regards,

Carlos.

[Occuros]

Hey @calbzam

unfortunately these two possibilities don't help in my scenario.

We have multiple times a year new students coming in. We already could setup all the repository and permission management throug cli which helped a lot with automation.

 

The main thing we currently miss is to automate the sync view creation for the created repositories, if that could be achieved through CLI we have nearly everything automated.

 

[calbzam]

Hi,

Even when there is not a full sync view via CLI, you could distribute the configuration files so the users don't need to manually create the sync view via GUI:

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\plastic4\syncviews.conf

Regards,

Carlos.

[Occuros]

We do the opposite actually.

Each student gets his personal repository, and we setup sync views on our end to sync the master repo to their personal repos each week. 

So they don't need to worry about syncing their repositories themselves.

[Tinyfish]

I write my own PowerShell script to sync:

function Push-PlasticRepo {
    param (
        $repo,
        $sourceServer,
        $targetServer
    )

    $branches = & cm find branches on repositories "'$repo@$sourceServer'" --format='"{name}"' --nototal
    foreach ($branch in $branches) {
        & cm push $branch@$repo@$sourceServer $repo@$targetServer
    }
}

foreach ($repo in @("RepoA", "RepoB", "RepoC")) {
    Push-PlasticRepo $repo "localhost:8087" "ssl://xxx.net:8088"
}

And add it to Task Scheduler to automatically sync every night:

schtasks /create /f /tn "My\Sync Plastic Repos" /sc daily /st 04:00 /tr "powershell.exe -ex bypass 'xxx.ps1'"