suggestion: "user delete"
Eberhard Moenkeberg
emoenke at gwdg.de
Sun Jan 2 01:45:58 GMT 2005
Hi,
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, ivo welch wrote:
> dear rsync developers:
>
> I use rsync as a convenient synchronization tool. I know it was not made
> therefore, but it is very convenient. the only drawback I see is that the
> delete option is "harsh"---if I edit on machine A, and then forget that A is
> the updated machine, an rsync pull from machine B will delete my new files on
> A (if I use --delete). most of the time, this is what I want, some of the
> time I screw up. what I would really like to be able to specify is my own
> version of "rm". (it could rename file x to be x~ instead of deleting it; or
> copy it somewhere to /tmp/; or whatever.)
>
> this may be easy to implement---a command-line option "---use-rm=" and a
> system call instead of an unlink call.
>
> possible?
Necessary?
We already have --backup-dir= which indeed can preserve all the "to be
deleted" files.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)
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