On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 21:25 -0400, Charles Perreault wrote: > I heard recently about the detect-renamed patch for rsync. I was about > to code something similar, I need it badly, but decided to give the > patch a try first. It seems to work well but it's rename detection > scheme seems to be limited. From my tests, it seems to detect that a > file has changed name only if the file remains in the same base dir. It > detects that a file has moved from one dir to another only if it keeps > the same name.
--detect-renamed is supposed to be able to detect a rename even when the file both moves and changes basename, and in my test, it did so. If you have a reproducible case in which it doesn't, let's figure out what is going on. > I was wondering who is/are the author(s) of the patch (it's not written > in the patch file) as I'd like to discuss with them about possible > enhancement. It appears that the patch was written by Wayne Davison, the current rsync maintainer. Discussion about enhancements can occur on this list. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
