Using rsync to generate diff/patches

[Dave Whitinger]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:50 AM, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

> Look at "batch mode."  Except it actually applys changes, too.

Thank you, Chris!

That's excellent that most of the code is already written.  All
that is needed now is something like "dry-run", that will tell it
not to apply the changes, but only write out the batch file.

Something like this:

rsync --write-batch=foo --dry-run -a host:/source/dir/ /adest/dir/

Doable?

Dave