On 12 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems to me that this situation is common enough that the rsync > protocol should look for it as a special case. Once the protocol has > determined from differing timestamps and/or lengths that a file needs > to be synchronized, the receiver should return a hash (and length) of > its copy of the entire file to the sender.
That's a good point and an interesting idea. Naively implemented it would add another round trip, which would probably not be worthwhile, but there might be a better solution. You might like to read the technical report if you have not already. -- Martin