On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 17:26 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > In the event that --link-dest=DIR is the option taking on the new > behavior (and thus is affected by --delete), I think that the lines > given by --itemize-changes should not indicate the creation of "old" > directories.
I agree. > In the meantime - is there a way to itemize only a particular type of > change? For example: files only, no dirs, or files with permission > updates only, etc? No, but you can run the itemize output through "grep" to select files with the desired type and/or changes. > The 'cp -al' method is what I'm currently doing as a workaround, but it > adds a few extra lines to my script because I need to check if the > destination connected to via ssh and then run the cp command over SSH > (which is a different cp command than it normally would be because the > ssh commands are relative to the users home directory...) Note (if you haven't already) that you can do the "cp" in the --rsync-path rather than in a separate ssh session. Matt -- 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