On 29 April 2010 10:06, Matt McCutchen <m...@mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 22:24 +1000, David Schoen wrote: > > Also when I use rsync I like to put slashes on the end of all paths as > > it works closer to the way you're thinking, e.g.: > > rsync -av /path/to/source/directory/ /path/to/destination/directory/ > > > > other wise you will probably end up with two copies after your second > > run, one in /path/to/destination/directory and the second in > > /path/to/destination/directory/directory . Which probably isn't what > > you want. > > I believe the behavior you describe is a bug. "rsync src dest" should > always copy to dest/src . However, if dest does not exist yet /and/ src > happens to be empty, "solo file" mode will trip and the source path will > be ignored. This is a pointless inconsistency. I think an empty > directory should not be regarded as a solo file. In commit a7d461f, > Wayne changed a comment in get_local_name to suggest that but apparently > did not change the code to match. > You're right, it does. Either I have a faulty memory or at some point I've used a buggy version. Thanks for pointing this out :)
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