--ignore-exisiting criteria?

Frank Jaccarino fjaccarino at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 23:24:50 MDT 2010


Forgive the noob question.  When you say at the corresponding path, that
would mean name, correct?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:16 -0700, fjaccarino wrote:
> > I've been hunting on the web but I can't seem to find what the definition
> > that is used when using the "--ignore-existing" option of RSYNC.  Would
> > anyone happen to know what exactly is the criteria used to ignore files?
>  Is
> > it name only?  Size?  Name and size?
>
> The criterion is that something already exists at the corresponding path
> in the destination; it doesn't matter what.
>
> --
> Matt
>
>
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