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The amazingly awesome tar pipe command for copying trees of files around
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| # https://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/the-tar-pipe.html | |
| SRC=existing-source-controlled-proj | |
| DEST=copy-of-proj-with-no-git-data | |
| # on Linux and WSL use gnu tar exclude VCS to prevent copying the git data | |
| (cd ${HOME}/depot/${SRC} && tar --exclude-vcs cf - .)|(cd ${HOME}/depot/${DEST} && tar xvfp -) | |
| # on Mac the --exclude-vcs is not available - can add --exclude .git | |
| (cd ${HOME}/depot/${SRC} && tar --exclude='.git' cf - .)|(cd ${HOME}/depot/${DEST} && tar xvfp -) |