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. (or there should be yet another option to suppress these.)
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? Matt PS 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...) Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 01:14 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> I've been thinking about the current behavior of the --link-dest=DIR >> option. In the absence of --delete, ALL members of DIR should be linked >> to the destination (aside from those that are changed). If not, there >> should at least be a --no-link-dest-delete option. (This latter option >> might be better to avoid disrupting the behavior of current rsync commands) > > Interesting suggestion. Currently, the meaning of --link-dest=DIR is > somewhere between "use DIR as an optimization" and "regard DIR as the > previous version of the destination", and it is not ideally suited for > either use case. I have proposed splitting it into --link-basis-dir and > --link-dest variants for the two meanings: > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5645 > > The new --link-dest would itemize deletions with respect to the basis > dir when --delete is on, even though nothing is actually being deleted, > as separately proposed here: > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5263 > > And, now that you mention it, I guess the new --link-dest should also > hard-link in files from the basis dir that have no counterpart in the > source when --delete is off. > > A currently possible way to get the same result as my hypothetical new > --link-dest is to "cp -al" the basis dir to the destination first and > then rsync to the destination. > > 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
