rsync deleted all my important docs...

[Carlos Carvalho]

Matt McCutchen (matt at mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 13 September 2009 16:53:
 >On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 18:22 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> Sanjay Acharya (svacharya76 at gmail.com) wrote on 11 September 2009 11:02:
 >>  >How is rsync supposed to behave when I give the --delete-excluded?
 >> 
 >> >From the manual for the --delete option:
 >> 
 >>    If the sending side detects any I/O errors, then the deletion of
 >>    any files at the destination  will  be  automatically  disabled.
 >>    This  is  to  prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS
 >>    errors) on the sending side causing a massive deletion of  files
 >>    on   the   destination.
 >
 >Unfortunately, this safety feature is partially disabled when rsync uses
 >protocol 30 (default for rsync 3.0.*) with incremental recursion and
 >--delete-during, because it caused a deadlock that could not be fixed
 >without breaking protocol compatibility; see commit
 >deea1f70bd67c6cc9249def9164f5e61e786e845 .

Searching in the gitweb I didn't find this commit. How can I discover
it? Also, I see no mention of this in the changelog.

What's the exit status in this case? From what Sanjay says:

Sanjay Acharya (svacharya76 at gmail.com) wrote on 11 September 2009 11:02:
 >rsync: readlink_stat("/mnt/raid-backup/Documents/Finance") failed:
 >Input/output error (5)

it appears to be 5. Could it be 23 as well? 23 is very frequent and
usually not a problem.