From: Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:11:09 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: TODO: Implement recursive upload/download in guestfish.
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TODO: Implement recursive upload/download in guestfish.
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 56542ec..7737201 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -370,3 +370,23 @@ We would like to add:
   - An easier way to use this from guestfish.
   - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
     anything apart from VGs).
+
+Recursive upload / download of multiple files
+---------------------------------------------
+
+virt-tar is really clumsy to use, and upload/download in guestfish can
+only do single files.  tar-in in guestfish can upload multiple files,
+but only if you have prepared a tarball in advance.
+
+What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and
+'scp -r'.
+
+Can we add this as a command in guestfish?  This will be more useful
+since users will already need to be in guestfish in order to create
+target directories, review what they've done etc.  It could be a meta-
+command such as:
+
+  copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir
+  copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir
+
+which would hide use of tgz-in etc.