I found a buggie

[Carlos Morel Gómez La Roque]

Well, let's then add the new feature option.

2012/9/27 Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms at citd.de>

> On 26.09.2012 23:45, Carlos Morel Gómez La Roque wrote:
> > Hello, people. Sorry but I found that when you do rsync to a not created
> > destination it makes a mkdir in order to accomplish the work. The problem
> > comes when there are some uncreated parents in the destination
> directories.
> > That's just because in the builtin mkdir isn't specified the -p option.
> > Thus, the problem is solved just adding the -p option to the built in
> mkdir
> > in the code you wrote.
>
> As far as i remember this same topic came up a few years ago.
>
> In short: That's intentional and not a bug.
>
> Otherwise it's too easy to rsync to an unintended destination when you
> fat-fingered the destination.
>
> And it would be a deviation from established behaviour and only
> acceptable with an explicit command-line-option so that the
> default-behaviour of rsync would be unchanged.
>
>
>
> Bis denn
>
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