DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5256] New: make -i format more consistent [*deleting]

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5256

           Summary: make -i format more consistent [*deleting]
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: 14709c93 at mailinator.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


I've switched to using -i instead of -v as a default flag. Because: it
says exactly why something is being updated, is mostly parseable[1],
and I don't have to guess if '^deleting <blah>' was a newly created
filename with a space in it or was a deleted file...because with -i,
every line has the itemization prefix.

[1] - mostly parseable except for the following inconsistency...

>f.st...... db/locate.database
.d..t...... log/
*deleting log/slip.log
*deleting log/ppp.log
*deleting log/maillog.0.gz
*deleting log/log-all
>f+++++++++ log/all.log
>f.st...... log/auth.log

It would be very cool if all the itemization prefixes had the same
field width. That is eleven (11) code characters followed by one (1)
space then the file path.

The use of '^*deleting' breaks that model, requires extra code to
parse and makes the output hard to read as you can see above due to
poor column alignment.

I would suggest replacing '*deleting' with one of the following:
'^..--------- <path>' similar to creating 'all.log' above.
'^..deleted-- <path>' same char length as cstpogz.

This also allows the first two chars to still indicate update and file
type.  The update type might always be 'c' or '>'.

Thanks!


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