David Abrahams <[email protected]> writes: > From the TRAMP info file: > > `rsync' -- `ssh' and `rsync' > Using the `ssh' command to connect securely to the remote machine > and the `rsync' command to transfer files is almost identical to > the `scp' method. > > While `rsync' performs much better than `scp' when transferring > files that exist on both hosts, this advantage is lost if the file > exists only on one side of the connection. > > That's pretty un-specific. *Where*, exactly, does the file need to > exist on both machines in order to get this advantage?
I've never used rsync by myself, and the text is not from me :-) I would suspect, that it means, that a file which is copied should exist already on the other host under the same name. Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
