On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:54 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: >> On 5/15/2008 7:18 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: >> > I don't particularly like the option, so my current inclination is to >> > just keep it available in the patches directory for those that want it. >> >> Hi Wayne, >> >> I hope you don't mind a follow-up... >> >> You can do what you want, of course, but the problem with this is some >> of the people who will want to use rsync to backup Windows boxes are - >> or at least I am - shall we say, not programmers, and are not totally >> comfortable patching code - and so will be at the mercy of someone >> else's generosity for providing a patched version of the rsync binary. >> >> Matt was kind enough to do this for me a while back with 2.6.9, but I'd >> rather not keep bothering him every time a new version is released. > > To some degree I can see Wayne's rationale for not including > --ignore-case in the main version of rsync. Officially, rsync targets > only Unix-like systems, not Windows, though OS-specific compatibility > changes/features are fair game for the maintained patches. I remember > Wayne declined another Windows-specific change I proposed a while ago.
How does this work on OS X/HFS+ (case-preserving, but case-insensitive)? Any issues with the standard build in a mixed-OS scenario like this? -- Aaron Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
