On 8/11/07, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking about having a way to specify that the --append option
> should just skip past the already-present data without checksumming it.
> Perhaps an --append-fast option?
That's what my --trust-append option in patches/trust-append.diff
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:40:30AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Thus, rsync wants to make sure the entire files are identical so as
> not to deceive those future runs. Wayne, was this your thinking?
That was the idea -- still compute a full-file checksum so that we know
the file is OK after the
On 8/2/07, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oddly, rsync does checksum the existing data. At first I thought this
>
> Only after the transfer is complete, no? Not during, as it does
> normally.
Yes, during. Note the big "if (append_mode > 0)" block in match_sums
in match.c . It's mu
On Thu 02 Aug 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I thought that --append simply meant that in cases where the destination
> > file is shorter, data is simply appended without first checksumming the
> > existing data, but that transfers would otherw
On 8/2/07, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought that --append simply meant that in cases where the destination
> file is shorter, data is simply appended without first checksumming the
> existing data, but that transfers would otherwise not be affected in any
> way, i.e. be performe
On Wed 01 Aug 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to
> > believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be
> > updated, due to the following text:
>
> Tha
Firstly, thanks for the patches. I've checked in my slightly tweaked
versions into CVS.
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to
> believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be
> update
[ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426191 ]
The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to
believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be
updated, due to the following text:
...
Only files on the receiving side that are shorter t
