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    pressure-vessel: Add code to parse and apply a mtree(5) manifest · 1bdf777d
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    This can be used to create directories, symlinks and zero-byte files,
    create files as a clone (hard-link or copy) of files in a reference
    directory, assert that files exist, set executable/non-executable
    permissions, and set files' modification times.
    
    When cloning files from a reference directory, the default is to use
    the same filename as the destination, but that can be overridden
    (for example to deal with inconvenient/non-Windows-friendly filenames).
    This is also actually slightly faster than pv_cheap_tree_copy(),
    presumably because the manifest is contiguous on-disk and the
    directories are not necessarily.
    
    Setting directories' modification times is implemented, but probably
    won't work in practice, because any files we create in the directory
    will alter its mtime.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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    pressure-vessel: Add code to parse and apply a mtree(5) manifest
    Simon McVittie authored
    
    This can be used to create directories, symlinks and zero-byte files,
    create files as a clone (hard-link or copy) of files in a reference
    directory, assert that files exist, set executable/non-executable
    permissions, and set files' modification times.
    
    When cloning files from a reference directory, the default is to use
    the same filename as the destination, but that can be overridden
    (for example to deal with inconvenient/non-Windows-friendly filenames).
    This is also actually slightly faster than pv_cheap_tree_copy(),
    presumably because the manifest is contiguous on-disk and the
    directories are not necessarily.
    
    Setting directories' modification times is implemented, but probably
    won't work in practice, because any files we create in the directory
    will alter its mtime.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>