rsync - Oct 2005 - why each time I do a file sync, it showed me that a file trasnfers is occured

I executed
rsync --progress --verbose --stats  --recursive
test@100.100.100.100::test /home/test2 --stats

but each time it showed me files are being transfer but actually the
files is not changed or updated any.
for example,

          12 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
abcdef
          44 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
demo2
           0 100%    0.00kB/s  157:26:58
demo3
           0 100%    0.00kB/s  157:26:58
xyz
           0 100%    0.00kB/s  157:26:58

should I have some mis-interpretation  on these message output ?

On Mon 24 Oct 2005, Adrian Mak wrote:
> I executed
> rsync --progress --verbose --stats  --recursive
> test@100.100.100.100::test /home/test2 --stats
> 
> but each time it showed me files are being transfer but actually the
> files is not changed or updated any.
> for example,
You don't show the --stats output. Please do.


Paul Slootman

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Adrian Mak <makkaichung@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> rsync --progress --verbose --stats  --recursive
> test@100.100.100.100::test /home/test2 --stats
> 
> but each time it showed me files are being transfer but actually the
> files is not changed or updated any.
Since you are using --recursive instead of --archive the timestamps
aren't copied.  On the next run, rsync thinks the file has changed
since the timestamps are not the same, and it must transfer the file.
However, since rsync does a block checksum comparison, it discovers
that the data really hasn't changed.  So no actual data is sent again.

Use --archive (or at least use --times).

Also, remove the trailing --stats.

    John