rsync with -ls option

[Dave Dykstra]

See the threads beginning at
    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/1998-December/000886.html
    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/1999-January/000954.html
    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-January/001728.html

No, I don't think the rsync tool is right for your "rdiff" function.
Somebody else has written another tool called "xdelta"
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdelta
which uses the rsync algorithm and may do what you want.

- Dave Dykstra

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:10:20PM -0800, George.R.Goffe at seagate.com wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Unfortunately I don't do much coding so I don't think I'm the "right" guy
> for this job. I'd like to see the emails tho, MAYBE I can cook something
> up. I was actually thinking about making the "report" even more sexy by
> what I call the "rdiff" function. Rsync compares files now and might be
> able to make pipes to diff? Of course binaries would not be eligible.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Dykstra <dwd at bell-labs.com> on 03/08/2002 09:57:51 AM
> 
> To:   George.R.Goffe at seagate.com
> cc:   rsync at samba.org
> 
> Subject:  Re: rsync with -ls option
> 
> 
> A long time ago somebody volunteered to improve the --log-format and -n
> options to work for those kind of situations but he never did them.  So
> we're waiting for a new volunteer.  If somebody else is interested in doing
> them I could dig up the old emails where we discussed some of the design.
> 
> - Dave Dykstra
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:30:45AM -0800, George.R.Goffe at seagate.com wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm trying to get a report from rsync using the -n option which will
> > produce a report of files that are different in a ls -al kind of style so
> > one could analyze what's different before possibly clobering a good file.
> >
> > Is this possibly in the works or does anyone have any ideas on how this
> > might be done. It seems like a useful option to rsync to have.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > George...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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