bugfix: indeterministic file choice from multiple sources

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Wed Aug 25 16:03:51 GMT 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:44:15AM +0200, Dirk Pape wrote:
> Since in our scenario using rsync we rely on deterministic behaviour

What would you think of a tie-break for identical names that depended on
some other attribute of the files?  Such as newest file wins?  That
would be quite easy to add and would be deterministic, but perhaps not
in the way you want.

..wayne..


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