Rsync itemizing "t" (should be "T") when lutimes fails on recreated symlink

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Tue Mar 11 05:04:11 GMT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:44 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:23:15AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > When rsync recreates a destination symlink to update its target path,
> > rsync will fail to preserve the time, but it nevertheless itemizes "t".
> 
> This is now fixed in the git repository along with a couple other
> glitches that I turned up in the itemized output.

Nice!  It works!  I see you also converted the non-symlink itemize
condition to a ?:, which I had been thinking of proposing.

Matt



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