--append option description in manpage confusing
Wayne Davison
wayned at samba.org
Wed Aug 1 22:48:07 GMT 2007
Firstly, thanks for the patches. I've checked in my slightly tweaked
versions into CVS.
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to
> believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be
> updated, due to the following text:
That is true as long as you meant to say sending side instead of
receiving side. Files that are shorter on the _sending side_ are
indeed skipped. There was a bug where files with an identical
size were getting updated, and I've just checked in a fix for that.
..wayne..
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