Your message dated Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:34:51 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#426191: rsync: description of --append confusing has caused the Debian Bug report #426191, regarding rsync: description of --append confusing to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: rsync Version: 2.6.9-3 Severity: minor The --append switch is documented as (among other things): "Only files on the receiving side that are shorter than the corre‐ sponding file on the sending side (as well as new files) are sent." However, in my experience, I found that even files of the same size and larger ones are being "sent" (rsync -a --append), with "sent" meaning that rsync will recreate them at the destination. (Which to me is the desired property). The documentation sounds as if files will not be transferred ("sent") unless they are larger, but this seems not to be the case (and makes little sense to me, but this doesn't mean it should be the case :). So either the documentation is wrong or the implementation, or the wording is extremely confusing (to me), as it is not clear what "sent" means other than recreating the file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages rsync depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.42-1 Access control list shared library hi libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip rsync recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Sun 27 May 2007, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > The --append switch is documented as (among other things): > > "Only files on the receiving side that are shorter than the corre‐ > sponding file on the sending side (as well as new files) are sent." The description of the --append option has been changed a lot in the meantime, I consider it to be quite clear in its meaning now. Hence I'm now closing this bug report. Thanks, Paul
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