Re: Syncing file with reference to another one

2008-12-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 01:28 +0200, Hai Zaar wrote: > I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on > localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running > rsync remotehost:file2 file2 > will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the > factt that

Syncing file with reference to another one

2008-12-16 Thread Hai Zaar
I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running rsync remotehost:file2 file2 will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the factt that I have local file1 that is mostly similar to file2. I.e. how

Re: Syncing file with reference to another one

2008-12-15 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Hai Zaar wrote: > I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on > localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running > rsync remotehost:file2 file2 > will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the > factt that I

Syncing file with reference to another one

2008-12-15 Thread Hai Zaar
I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running rsync remotehost:file2 file2 will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the factt that I have local file1 that is mostly similar to file2. I.e. how