Test::S...::Forest(3)

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version 1.84 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

🦋 Test::Smoke::Syncer::Forest 🦋

okay bestie, listen up, this is the syncing girlie of the Test::Smoke::Syncer family and she does things a little differently, and honestly? iconic behaviour. 💅

What she does is she sets up a master directory that is in sync with either a snapshot or the repository. Then she creates a copy of this master directory as a hardlink forest and the regenheaders.pl script is run (if found). Now the source-tree should be up to date and ready to be copied as a hardlink forest again, to its final destination. like. she's just out here duplicating whole trees with hardlinks and not a single byte wasted. main character energy fr fr. ✨

🫶 Shoutout to Nicholas Clark for donating this idea. king behaviour, we love to see it.

🌸 Test::Smoke::Syncer::Forest->new( %args ) 🌸

Keys for %args:

  • All keys from the other methods (depending on {fsync}) — yes she inherits, she's flexible like that 💁
  • fsync — which master sync method is to be used
  • mdir — master directory
  • fdir — intermediate directory (first hardlink forest)

💖 $syncer->sync( ) 💖

sync() starts with a "traditional" sync according to {ftype} in {mdir}. It then creates a copy of {mdir} in {fdir} with hardlinks an tries to run the regen_headers.pl script in {fdir}. This directory should now contain an up to date (working) source-tree wich again using hardlinks is copied to the destination directory {ddir}. 🎀

so yeah, it's a whole little relay race: master dir → intermediate hardlink forest → maybe run a script → boom, destination dir. passing the baton with hardlinks the entire way. obsessed. 🧚

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  • Abe Timmerman <abeltje@cpan.org> 💜

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 🫶 no promises bestie, that's just how it is.

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 this one came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's the Test::S...::Forest(3) manual page — mwah, slay, bye 💋

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