preserve ctimes of *unchanged* directories on receiver

Lasse Kliemann lasse-rsync-2008 at mail.plastictree.net
Wed Mar 5 19:29:10 GMT 2008


* Message by -Wayne Davison- from Tue 2008-03-04:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:21:01PM +0100, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> > 'rsync -a' updates the ctime on a directory even if no file in that directory 
> > has changed.
> 
> Earlier rsyncs always did an extra stat() prior to setting the time, so
> I've restored that behavior.  The attached patch fixes this.

Thank you, the patch works as expected.

For everyone's information: for the case at hand it is also a good idea to 
use --inplace to prevent ctime changes to directories in which only *existing*
files changed.

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