new rsync feature

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Tue Oct 9 10:59:15 EST 2001


> i didn't see that there was a way to tell rsync to change ownership and
> group assignment on all files transferred to a specific user.  meaning
> "transfer all these files to this remote machine and then chown them to
> 'doug', no matter who owns them here on the local machine".
> 
> i need this, so i added this feature in my local tree.  seems to work
> ok on Solaris and Mac OS X.  the code was good and easy to modify (yay).

You might as well send the patch through to the list.  Please send it 
in context diff format (-c).  

Does anybody else want this or want it not to go in?

 -- 
Martin




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