Anyone out there feel like contributing to this feature? It appears it was marked assigned for 3.1.1 but I didn't see any movement.
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10448 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:48 AM, John Pierman <haqt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why is it not ignoring case? >> > > Because you're not running it on a case-ignoring filesystem. That patch > is (sadly) only a partially effective set of changes that helps rsync to > deal with a filesystem that doesn't differentiate upper-/lower-case when > naming files. Rsync's main algorithm of probing for files by name (via > stat) didn't change, and thus it doesn't try to find an alternate name for > the same file if the filesystem isn't conglomerating them together (and > indeed, it totally fails to notice if the case on a filename has changed on > the server compared to the file's name on the receiver). > > For a means of fixing this, I'm imaging having the code that is used for > --delete-during getting modified to notice changes in case and trying to > fix them (even if rsync isn't doing a delete-during run). If that were > done, the patch would probably then be in good enough shape to finally be > included in the main code. > > ..wayne.. >
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