rsync announce - Mar 2005 - Rsync 2.6.4pre4 released (2.6.4 imminent!)

I've released rsync 2.6.4pre4.  I believe that this version will be what
gets released as 2.6.4, hopefully on Wednesday.  Please try this out
and let me know if anything is amiss.

All the changes since 2.6.3 are mentioned here:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/NEWS

You'll also find a preview of the man pages in the same dir (as usual):

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync.html
    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsyncd.conf.html

The changes since 2.6.4pre3 are as follows:

    - Fixed the listing of files on an rsync daemon that is version
      2.6.3 or before.

    - Fixed the saving of the state of the --dirs option in a
      protocol-29 batch file. Also added the saving of --compress.

    - Got rid of the customized death message when talking to pre1/pre2
      version of 2.6.4 (since everyone should have upgraded to pre3 by
      now).

    - Don't reject --dry-run with --read-batch or --write-batch.
      Instead, output what changes would be made without --dry-run (but
      do nothing).

    - Limit the maximum fuzzy-name distance the --fuzzy option will
      accept when looking for an alternate basis file. Also fixed a bug
      in the parsing of each file's suffix.

    - Tweaked the generator to do any --delete-after processing and any
      directory tweaking after any --delay-updates processing has
      finished.

    - Reversed the meaning of the '<' or '>' prefix that
is output by
      the log-format's "%i" escape when files are transferred.

    - Documented the --protocol=NUM option (which can be useful for
      creating batch files with an older protocol version).

You can grab the tar file and its signature here:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.4pre4.tar.gz
    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.4pre4.tar.gz.asc

Please give it a try and send feedback!  Thanks!

..wayne..
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:16:59 -0800
Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> wrote:
> I've released rsync 2.6.4pre4.  I believe that this version will be
what
> gets released as 2.6.4, hopefully on Wednesday.  Please try this out
> and let me know if anything is amiss.
<snip>

I just noticed an oddity when using --dry-run. There are literally thousands
(4018, to be exact) of '^M 0 files...' with a random mix of '^M 100
files...' (49) & '^M 200 files...' (18) printed after the stats
display. This is on a set of 36482 files.

The commandline used (long, sorry about messy linewrap):

rsync --archive --compress --hard-links --partial --progress --sparse --verbose
--delete-after --dry-run --include /slackware-8.1 --include /slackware-9.0
--include /slackware-9.1 --include /slackware-10.0 --include /slackware-10.1
--include /slackware-current --exclude "/*"
rsync://rsync.osuosl.org/slackware/
/pub/mirrors/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/

As I don't know which rsync version osuosl has deployed, I also tried
against a private mirror run by a friend (/me waves to nameless :) which uses
2.6.3. With the trivial exception of directory timestamp differences, the output
is the same (re: '^M 0 files...' a few thousand times).

Erik

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