Hi Joseph, If you'd like the --clone-dest option in future releases then you'd need to open a PR for that and it must include a CI test which will likely mean creating a btrfs filesystem within the CI job (I presume you're using btrfs? the patch comments that btrfs is needed to test this feature). Note that many of the patches (including I suspect clone-dest.patch) suffer from the path based symlink races fixed in 3.4.3. This means the patch would have to be re-worked to follow the new xxxx_at() pattern, or we'd have to deny the option when in a daemon without chroot. Cheers, Tridge
On Fri, 22 May 2026 at 03:18, Joseph Maher via rsync <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I realize the clone-dest patch is unsupported, but I've updated it to the most > recent git tree here, and included some tests: > > https://github.com/josephmaher/rsync > > I've also attached a patch for the current version of rsync in debian > stable/trixie in case that is of any use to anyone... > > Obviously, use at your own risk - I got stuck and had to ask claude.ai for > advice at various points, so these changes include suggestions from claude.ai. > > Joseph-- > 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 -- 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
