Re: The behavior of -u/--update option on directories

2003-01-14 Thread Aaron W Morris
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:46, Florian-Daniel Otel wrote: Aaron, Aaron Morris writes: rsync is just doing what your are telling it to do. Update if the file is changed or does not exist on the remote side and delete if it no longer exists on the local side. Yes, I can RTFM, and,

Re: The behavior of -u/--update option on directories

2003-01-14 Thread Florian-Daniel Otel
Aaron W Morris writes: Truth to be told, after a bit of thinking I _might_ accept the fact that --update ignores the timestamps on (sub)directories. Because if it didn't, if any file was touch-ed remotely after the last rsync than all subdirs, up to and including to the top dir,

The behavior of -u/--update option on directories

2003-01-13 Thread Florian-Daniel Otel
Dear all, I have the following problem: I use the following command to push files from local to a remote machine: [...] /usr/bin/rsync -avuz -e ssh -1 --exclude .Xauthority --delete /user/home/directory/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/user/home/directory/ ; (The ssh is using RSA authentication btw.

Re: The behavior of -u/--update option on directories

2003-01-13 Thread Aaron Morris
rsync is just doing what your are telling it to do. Update if the file is changed or does not exist on the remote side and delete if it no longer exists on the local side. The directory may have a newer timestamp, but you are doing a recursive put so it has to check all the files and dirs

Re: The behavior of -u/--update option on directories

2003-01-13 Thread Florian-Daniel Otel
Aaron, Aaron Morris writes: rsync is just doing what your are telling it to do. Update if the file is changed or does not exist on the remote side and delete if it no longer exists on the local side. Yes, I can RTFM, and, suprisingly!, I even _did_ RTFM :)). The directory may have a