Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-06 Thread John Van Essen
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Erik Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems that many of the files I just transferred from Windows to Mac OS X came across with ***blank creation dates***. Egad - rsyncing between different OSes and neither OS is *nix. That's pretty rare. Although Mac OS X is technically

Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-06 Thread Erik Neumann
Here is what I've learned so far about using rsync on Mac OS X 10.4.6 ("Tiger")  in case others find it useful:I did a test where I rsync a small directory with a few text files, from one directory to another directory on the same Mac OS X hard disk (disk was formatted with Apple's default HFS+

Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-05 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Erik Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to using rsync, so far it is working well. But I want to know what files rsync decided to transfer. Using the -v option lists every sub-folder of my directory and lots of files. It sounds like you are not preserving the

Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-05 Thread Erik Neumann
Seems that many of the files I just transferred from Windows to Mac OS X came across with ***blank creation dates***.When rsync makes copies on the target, those copies get a creation date that is equal to the modification date therefore the two files are not the same (the creation date is

how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Neumann
I'm new to using rsync, so far it is working well. But I want to know what files rsync decided to transfer. Using the -v option lists every sub-folder of my directory and lots of files. Is there any way to get rsync to report only on the changes it made to the destination directory? I'd

Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-04 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 13:47 -0700, Erik Neumann wrote: what files /directories were copied across what files/ directories were deleted The -i, --itemize-changes option is just for you! It will give you output like this: .d..t ./ [mtime changed, probably because things were created]

Re: how to tell what files changed?

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Neumann
Hey thanks, I did see that in the docs but the -i --itemize-changes option doesn't exist in the version of rsync I'm using (the default version for Mac OS X 10.4.6) rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others http://rsync.samba.org/