I don't have a Mac to test on. If you have a Mac maybe you could test and
open a PR against rsync for the change?


On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 10:12, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <rs...@ryandesign.com>
wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2025, at 16:34, rsync.project wrote:
>
>
> sorry about the prefix changes in rsync-patches.
>
>
> No problem; those changes were easy to remove from the fileflags patch.
>
> We're going to be dropping the whole rsync-patches system soon anyway, as
> it really isn't working well. It was supposed to be a staging area where
> users would test the patches before being considered for the main release,
> but we haven't really received any feedback on the patches, so not serving
> a useful purpose now. I'll probably stop updating it for the next release.
>
>
> MacPorts has been shipping rsync to users with fileflags.diff since 2008:
>
> #15472 (rsync-3.0.3 should fully preserve Mac OS X metadata)
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15472>
> trac.macports.org <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15472>
> [image: macports.ico] <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15472>
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15472>
>
>
> How about incorporating that patch into rsync proper, once it's fixed? I
> don't want to become responsible for maintaining your patches for you.
>
> The other patch discussed in that ticket, crtimes.diff, was already
> incorporated into rsync in 3.2.3.
>

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