Does it bother anybody else that -v prints directories twice? It first prints all affected directories and files in recursive order and then prints new directories again. I can't recall noticing that rsync always did that, but I don't think it's a very recent change.
The directory is being printed both times by recv_generator(), and I checked CVS and it's been there since the beginning of generator.c. Investigation told me that the second time around it is fixing up the modification time directories that had some file in them change during the run, done by a special call from recv_files() in receiver.c. I note that on that special call, the f_out parameter is set to -1 so the following little patch fixes it. I think this is simple enough that I'll just submit it to the rsync CVS as one of the small changes I put in. - Dave Dykstra --- generator.c.O Mon Dec 3 12:29:31 2001 +++ generator.c Mon Dec 3 12:27:04 2001 @@ -247,7 +247,9 @@ fname,strerror(errno)); } } - if (set_perms(fname,file,NULL,0) && verbose) + /* f_out is set to -1 when doing final directory + permission and modification time repair */ + if (set_perms(fname,file,NULL,0) && verbose && (f_out != -1)) rprintf(FINFO,"%s/\n",fname); return; }