Thanks for the reminder, jw -- I had meant to respond to this and forgot. I like the idea quite a bit since it allows the user to see what's going on to the exact degree that they need while remaining compatible with the old rsync behavior. I just have a couple comments:
Rsync currently has 5 levels of verbosity (with the 5th level being reserved for a single debug message in the match.c source). I'd want to ensure that the lower levels (how many?) match the old rsync behavior exactly for backward compatibility. (I noticed that the current code has DBG_* options erroneously mixed into the RPT_* options in the RPT_VERBOSE2 level, so it would need a corresponding DBG_VERBOSE2 define created.) The higher verbosity levels have so much output that it is doubtful that people actually rely upon the output for script use, so we should be able to draw the line at (maybe) verbose level 2 compatibility (though maybe even that isn't needed). It seems like there should be a way to ask for all the RPT_* options to be turned on using the --report option as well as all the DBG_* options. I.e., if the user wanted to say something like --report=all, it would turn on all the RPT_* options, and if they say --report=all-debug they would get all the debug messages (at a default of level 1). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
