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authorMartin Pool <mbp@samba.org>2002-04-03 00:10:11 +0000
committerMartin Pool <mbp@samba.org>2002-04-03 00:10:11 +0000
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Note about --dry-run.
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@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ There seems to be a bug with hardlinks
IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------------------------
+--dry-run is insufficiently dry
+
+ Mark Santcroos points out that -n fails to list files which have
+ only metadata changes, though it probably should.
+
+ There may be a Debian bug about this as well.
+
+
use chroot
If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try.
@@ -86,12 +94,14 @@ use chroot
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html
+
--files-from
Avoids traversal. Better option than a pile of --include statements
for people who want to generate the file list using a find(1)
command or a script.
+
File list structure in memory
Rather than one big array, perhaps have a tree in memory mirroring