Adding support for versioned files in rsync

Christopher Vance vance at aurema.com
Tue Oct 14 11:31:36 EST 2003


On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:20:48PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
>> It will never help with rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz vs. rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz
>> anyway, since any small change early in the stream will cause the entire
>> file to be encoded differently (side affect of how compression
>> algorithms work).
>
>See the rsyncable patch for gzip which can solve this
>problem.

Do you know at which version this was included in the gzip release?

-- 
Christopher Vance



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