Adding support for versioned files in rsync

[Sviatoslav Sviridov]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:20:48 -0700
jw schultz <jw at pegasys.ws> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:57:37PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote:
> > > I propose a new option:
> > > --comp-file=<file>
> > > 
> > > allowing:
> > > rsync -vvtPB --comp-file=$BASE remote.host:$NEW .
> > > 
> > 
> > Specifying this for each file would be murder for my purposes, but I
> > like the concept.  I think there needs to be some sort of configurable
> > logic for determining a "fallback" file when one doesn't exist.  In my
> > case, it might be nice to have a "fallback directory" and if the file
> > doesn't exist here, check in the fallback directory.
> 
> See --compare-dest and --link-dest.

It would be nice to allow option --compare-dest work with regular file, not
only directory. It will be useful for example for rsyncing iso images, etc.

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