Synching text files.

Kurt Roeckx Q at ping.be
Thu Oct 23 05:39:24 EST 2003


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:46:22AM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:31:12PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to sync text files where lines get inserted and
> > deleted.  From what I understand, rsync uses blocks to compare
> > and so can't find much data that matches.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to make it work so it finds blocks that get
> > inserted or deleted?
> 
> It already does.

Does it only do it on block basis?  Or will it try to find an
offset inside the block?


Kurt




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