On 2020-05-22 16:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:46:54 +0000 on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 +0000 on Friday, May 22,
2020:
> > > On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > > What it does is omit directories from the modification times
that it
> > > sets. In other words, you're telling it not to set the times
on
> > > directories it copies. The beginning of the epoch is pretty
> > reasonable
> > > for directories which have no specific time set.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, at least the manpage is unclear.
> > And *differs* from the default behavior of native rsync (at lesat
on
> > Ubuntu) that sets the dir time to the current time -- which is
more
> > reasonable than some arbitrary epoch = 0 time.
> >
> > That is what I would have expected and I believe should be the
default
> > behavior...
> >
> > > This option has no implications for which directories are
selected
> > to be
> > > copied.
>
> Unset is unset, it's not the option to use if you want the directory
> modification time set.
Regardless, behavior should be consistent with normal rsync...
If you can show me a standard *nix version of rsync that uses Epoch as
the default then I would retract my point... but otherwise Epoch is
totally arbitrary and illogical... while at least the current time has
a good rationale... Choosing 1/1/1970 not so much...
It's not that "epoch is the default" it's that that's what a timestamp
of 0 is. When you tell rsync not to set the timestamps, it doesn't.
If you want to touch the directories and update their timestamps to the
current time, you can do that, but it's an odd thing to expect rsync to
take care of for you when you explicitly tell it not to.
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