Harry Putnam wrote:
I must be seriously misunderstanding the man page coverage of
--compre-dest. My take was that if a file in compare-dest=dir
matches a file in SOURCE/ then it won't be transferred to DEST/.
I tried this test. (d1 has single files and 2 subdir with files)
cp -a d1 d1a
mkdir d2
rsync -avv --compare-dest="./d1a" d1/ d2/
d1a is carbon copy of d1 but still every last file in d1 is copied to
d2.
If you specify DIR as a relative link, it will be taken as relative to
destination dir. That's probably the culprit here.
mkdir d2
cp -a d1 d2/d1a
rsync -avv --compare-dest="./d1a" d1/ d2/
...should do the thing. Or just specify DIR as absolute.
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