On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 02:22 +0100, Donald Axel wrote: > Quoting man page: > > In the currently implementation, a difference of file format > is > always considered to be important enough for an update, no > matter > what date is on the objects. In other words, if the source has > a > directory or a symlink where the destination has a file, > the > transfer would occur regardless of the timestamps. This > might > change in the future (feel free to comment on this on the > mailing > list if you have an opinion). > > Comment: -u should preferably mean "update" only if target is older. > > > Actually I found out by experimenting that rsync may overwrite > anything different at the target. > > Using the -u option as "only if newer" would be analogous with zip, > unzip and cp and probably many other program.
OK...could you give us a concrete example in which it is helpful to have the straight "only if newer" behavior instead of the current one? Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
