Moving files revisited

[Dave Dykstra]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> It's up to Martin to decide, but I'm sorry to tell you that I'm opposed to
> a --move-files option.  I think that if somebody wants to do that they
> should do it with an external program after rsync returns a clean exit
> code.  It seems to me that it goes against the purpose of rsync because
> after the files are removed from the sending side there's nothing left to
> sync later.


I see that Tridge liked the idea in general but had some problems with your
implementation:

    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-May/004282.html

Have you addressed his concern?

- Dave Dykstra