Using rsync with django¶
Just a quick warning/tip on using Django with rsync, for other people pulling their hair out later.
When you use rsync a good way to get a directory is using
rsync -aCq
, which means recursively, quietly, move a directory
ignoring common files. The -a command means ‘archive’; keep
permissions and as much data about the files as possible. We use -C
because it ignores .pyc and .svn files. However, in the list of
included files is ‘core’, so that you don’t move over core dumps.
Django however has a core directory inside of it, and using -C causes rsync to ignore that directory. So we ended up using the rsync command like so:
rsync -aCq --include=core
Hopefully this saves people some time trying to rsync Django in the future. I’d be curious what other rsync commands that people use for moving around django and/or other files.