Re: Option to create ancestors of destination, like "mkdir -p

2009-12-15 Thread henri
> I agree with everyone else that it would be incredibly useful for rsync to > either adopt such behaviour by default (assuming always doing 'mkdir -p' isn't > harmful in any way), or have a tunable to enable it. I also agree the suggested behavior makes a lot of sense and I think it is a good id

Re: Option to create ancestors of destination, like "mkdir -p

2009-12-16 Thread henri
>> > I agree with everyone else that it would be incredibly useful for rsync to >> > either adopt such behaviour by default (assuming always doing 'mkdir -p' >> > isn't >> > harmful in any way), or have a tunable to enable it. >> >> I also agree the suggested behavior makes a lot of sense and I t

RE: Option to create ancestors of destination, like "mkdir -p

2009-12-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
henri wrote: > >> > I agree with everyone else that it would be incredibly useful for > rsync to > >> > either adopt such behaviour by default (assuming always doing > 'mkdir -p' isn't > >> > harmful in any way), or have a tunable to enable it. > >> > >> I also agree the suggested behavior makes a

Re: Option to create ancestors of destination, like "mkdir -p

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Tony Abernethy wrote: > The existing default has saved my bacon several times. > Yeah. I don't think I'd ever change the default, though adding an option is possible. However, there are several ways to create paths remotely with rsync now. For example: mkdir -