Do you like rsync 2.5.5?

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Wed Apr 3 11:55:16 EST 2002


On  2 Apr 2002, Eric Whiting <ewhiting at amis.com> wrote:

> Do I need to have 2.5.5 on both ends of the rsync (via ssh) to provide
> useful test results?

Results for both cases are useful, because we want to preserve
backward compatibility.  

For example, if rsync 2.5.5 - 2.4.6 hangs, then I would be inclined to
write that off as being caused by the 2.4 bug.  But if that
combination produced a corrupt file, then we certainly ought to
investigate.

-- 
Martin 




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