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I have a Django project and I need a workflow in which my git folder is separated from my server.

In other words: I am editing files in

~/git/web-framework

I am running the server (./manage.py runserver) from

~/srv/web-framework

Currently, I use rsync to update my server folder whenever I change the source code. This takes very long. I think this can be done faster by checking which files are modified with git and then just copying specifically those files to the server location. Can someone help me with a shellscript how to do this? I am running Ubuntu. Or does someone know another faster solution?

Extra information: I am editing all files from my Windows Host machine, while Ubuntu in a VirtualBox is running the server at the same time. If I use the shared folder, the whole server is running incredibly slow (Sharing a folder with VirtualBox just makes it incredibly slow). I want to be able to keep using git commands from windows ánd ubuntu inside this shared folder though.

rsync usually takes up to two minutes

real    1m34.494s 
user    0m0.218s 
sys     0m15.264s

Furthermore, even when ALL files are up to date it takes long and with the option -vv this might be some relevant information:

total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0

sent 1,054,073 bytes  received 3,441,985 bytes  42,616.66 bytes/sec
total size is 336,117,027  speedup is 74.76

With the command -v, the output says it has done fewer things (still without changes in files):

sent 939,612 bytes  received 11 bytes  9,838.98 bytes/sec
total size is 336,117,027  speedup is 357.71

During the run, it detects a lot of skipped *.pyc files (because I exclude those) and it has a lot of file x is uptodate messages.

simP
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  • `rsync` *does* check which files are modified and only transfer those. How slow is slow? What does `rsync` say it is doing and how long does it say it takes? – Etan Reisner Nov 25 '15 at 14:33
  • Use a git work tree on the server. This will allow the files to be updated the second they're updated on the server. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10821825/how-to-set-git-dir-git-work-tree-when-maintaining-multiple-repositories – houtanb Nov 25 '15 at 14:35
  • @EtanReisner it runs without errors and it takes: real 1m34.494s user 0m0.218s sys 0m15.264s Will look into git work tree, thanks! – simP Nov 25 '15 at 14:42
  • And how much data is transferred in that time? Does `rsync` give you an indication of where the time is spent? – Etan Reisner Nov 25 '15 at 14:53
  • @EtanReisner added some detailed output from rsync in the question – simP Nov 25 '15 at 15:07
  • Back-to-back runs of `rsync` without any file changes should report the same amount of work being done (even with `-v` and `-vv` I believe). Can you re-run those tests a few more times without changing any files and alternating `-v` and `-vv` and see if that's true? If, while doing this, you see `rsync` occasionally doing actual work then something is changing your files on you. Also please time all these runs. (I assume they are all about two minutes even when `rsync` reports it does nothing?) – Etan Reisner Nov 25 '15 at 15:11

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