I found this report while searching, but noticed it is quite old and appears to be unresolved. Am I correct in the assumption that this has not been done or integrated in rsync in any form(s) at this time?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsync in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353792 Title: Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead of delete/re-send Status in rsync package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: There has been a report in rsync[0] about this issue since 2005, some patches has been developed detect-renamed[1] and detect-renamed-lax[2] to target the issue, I think it would be great if Ubuntu could patch itself rsync to provide such feature. I've updated those[3] patches[4] to apply to the latest rsync package (3.1.1) and they're working great in my own setup, I also put them in a ppa[5] for further testing. The patches aren't intrusive, they provide some extra flags (--detect-renamed, --detec-moved and --detect-renamed-lax) so I think it shouldn't be disastrous for those who won't use the extra features. [0] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294 [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=7435 [2] http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=detect-renamed-lax.diff;h=4cd23bd4524662f1d0db0bcc90336a77d0bb61c9;hb=HEAD [3] https://github.com/chilicuil/learn/blob/master/patches/rsync-3.1.1-trusty-detect-renamed.diff [4] https://github.com/chilicuil/learn/blob/master/patches/rsync-3.1.1-trusty-detect-renamed-lax.diff [5] https://launchpad.net/~minos-archive/+archive/ubuntu/main/+packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1353792/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
