Hello, I always run rsync as follows: "sudo rsync -PaSHAXvi --del DIR1/ DIR2". I would think that whenever I see in the output of this rsync command a few lines of the form A/B/... and then further down in the output again a few lines of the form A/B/... (dots are dirs or files), then every line between such two lines is also of this form.
I then discovered that this is incorrect (incidentally, the order of the deleted files here below is not alphabetical?!): >f+++++++++ A/B/folder1/file1.mkv >f+++++++++ A/B/folder1/file2.mkv *deleting A/C/file3.tex *deleting A/C/file4.pdf *deleting A/C/file5.txt cd+++++++++ A/B/folder2/ >f+++++++++ A/B/folder2/file6.html Is this expected? Reading the manual (section about inductive recursion) I would think that the only case where rsync jumps unfinished dirs would be the creation of empty dirs. But here's the real question: is my hypothesis correct when we restrict to just lines starting by >, and also to just lines which start by *deleting? In other words, does the sender never jump folder and back, and same the receiver (but combined they might, as shown above)? I would grately appreciate insights. Please, let me know! Thanks, BP -- 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
