Hi, In rsync 2.5.5, I've noticed that when --backup is used along with the --delete and -v options, no message is printed when an obsolete file is 'deleted' from the destination directory (or more precisely, moved away and never replaced).
Apart from resorting to -vv (which is total overkill), apparently the only way to learn about such 'deleted' files is to manually look over the '~' files after running rsync, or the files in the backup directory (when --backup-dir is used). This can be very tedious work. So, I think 'deleted' files should be logged in the same manner as when --backup is not used. Attached is a simple 3-line patch which fixes that. I've designed it to work like non-"--backup" file deletion in that: - The log message says the same thing: "deleting %s\n" (so that scripts parsing the output can look for the same keyword) - The message is printed *after* the file is backed up - The message is only printed if the backup was successful Could this be included in the next version? Thanks, Jordan Russell
backup-delete-verbose.patch
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