Trouble with rsync-access

[Volker Reichelt]

On  1 Jun, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> 
>> The culprit seems to be the line
>>
>>   LockDir=/sourceware/cvs-lockdir/gcc
>>
>> which got added to CVSROOT/config recently:
>>
>>   date	2004.05.30.01.29.28;	author root;	state Exp;
>>
>> After deleting this line manually, the check-out works fine.
>> But that's only a work-around since the next rsync will break things again.
>>
>> Can the change be reverted or be worked around in some other way?
> 
> Add "--exclude=CVSROOT/config" to the rsync command line.

That seems to be the easiest thing to do. And it works, too! :-)
I'll cough up a patch to document this in rsync.html later.

Btw, I'd suggest to exclude CVSROOT/history and CVS/updatelog, too,
since these are big files of little use in a local repository, right?

> Andreas.

Thanks,
Volker