New options are usually handled by just letting the remote side fail when
it doesn't understand the option, as you're doing. Perhaps you just
shouldn't include it with -a.
At a minimum, you'd need to update the rsync.yo and rsync.1 versions of
the man page before it could be accepted.
- Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:12:47PM +0100, rg@progtech.net
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I've changed rsync to support the BSD change file flags. However, this
> raises some compatibility problems, especially when including it with
> the -a option. If the remote host does not understand the new option
> for updating file flags, the user gets an error message about an
> unknown option. How should I handle this?
>
> If you'd like to look at the patch (and preferably integrate it with
the
> main source ;)) you can get it at http://www.progtech.net/rsync.flags-patch
> All comments are welcome, but please CC me directly as I'm not on the
list.
>
> Thanks and bye,
> Rolf
>
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