On 7 Sep 2003 Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if this has been requested before, but I would really > like for rsync to compute an md5sum for each file at the source and > destination (with a flag turned off by default of course), and it > would realize that I renamed files at the source by noticing a > matching md5sum between different filenames > It would then rename the destination instead of deleting it and > resending the entire source, just because the filename changed. > This would also take care of me moving files between directory trees, > and again do a mv instead of a delete/resend (if I rsync the root of > all that of course) > > Or is this possible already?
This is not possible yet. It is on my wishlist for a future program. Of course remotely detecting files that have moved between directories might mean having the server hash every file on the filesystem. So it might be quite expensive... -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
