[HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

[crateman.universalistic356 at aceecat.org]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 11:37:19AM GMT, BP25 via rsync wrote:

> In other words, the recursion did not happen linearly (according to
> the tree structure of either the sender or the receiver). This is
> very counter-intuitive: I'd expect that every line which lies
> between any two lines of the form "A/B/..." would also have to start
> by "A/B/..."

Breadth-first search of the source tree could have this effect.  IOW,
imagine rsync pushing the names onto a queue, instead of a stack.  But
I don't know if that is what actually happens - just a guess.

-- 
Ian