Re: New feature: detect and avoid transfering renamed files

2008-09-21 Thread Yan Seiner
Phil Vandry wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:49:06 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: Sorry for the slow reply -- I marked your message for more in-depth study, and failed to get back to it until now. That's OK, I've done worse :-( drawbacks: - It creates a single (potentially really big)

Re: New feature: detect and avoid transfering renamed files

2008-09-21 Thread Phil Vandry
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:49:06 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > Sorry for the slow reply -- I marked your message for more in-depth > study, and failed to get back to it until now. That's OK, I've done worse :-( > drawbacks: > > - It creates a single (potentially really big) directory of files on >

Re: New feature: detect and avoid transfering renamed files

2008-09-09 Thread Wayne Davison
Sorry for the slow reply -- I marked your message for more in-depth study, and failed to get back to it until now. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:01:16PM -0400, Phil Vandry wrote: > I have long wished for a feature in rsync to detect files that have > renamed on the sender side since the last time a s

New feature: detect and avoid transfering renamed files

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Vandry
Hello rsyncers, I have long wished for a feature in rsync to detect files that have renamed on the sender side since the last time a sync was performed, and avoid transfering those files to the destination the same way it avoids transfering files that haven't changed. Example 1: a log directory (