On 30 Oct 2000, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My arguments to rsync were causing the remote tree to be
> reconstructed one level down from where I wanted it to go, which
> obviously caused all the files to be sent over.
This is a little confusing, though it's necessary that we allow people
to choose either behaviour.
> I still feel rsync could stand some improvement in its verbose output
> levels; this makes two things I'd like to see:
>
> 1) A line specifying _why_ each file was eligible for update (modtime,
> uid/gid change, whatever).
>
> 2) Output showing the fully-qualified source *and* destination
> pathnames, so it's easy to see when rsync is going to put a
> directory hierarchy where you don't expect it.
They're both good ideas. I just added explanations of exclusions, and
I think these two will also be straightforward.
> Anyway, after fixing this rsync -n was able to determine that only
> 20-odd files needed to be updated on my 2.7G filesystem in only 5
> minutes!
Good to hear!
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