From 642a979a27a4f8f50256df45951392075e35f954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Pool Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 00:10:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note about --dry-run. --- TODO | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index c8fc18ab..938bde79 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -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 -- 2.34.1