rsync - Nov 2003 - "touch" option for -c ?

Hi, I hope this hasn't been asked before ... I couldn't find it anyway.

To the best of my knowledge, without the -c option rsync judges file
differences based on date stamp and file size.  This speeds things up
of course but can be problematic when date stamps of two otherwise
identical files are uncontrollable (say when they come from two
different sources, such as installed from CD vs FTP).  So -c is
called for, right?  Is there any way to have rsync syncronize the
date stamps of the files on the destination host (even the ones
that aren't changed) so that subsequent rsyncs can omit -c?

Thanks,
Rich

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:15:03PM -0600, Rich Winkel
wrote:
> Hi, I hope this hasn't been asked before ... I couldn't find it
anyway.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, without the -c option rsync judges file
> differences based on date stamp and file size.  This speeds things up
> of course but can be problematic when date stamps of two otherwise
> identical files are uncontrollable (say when they come from two
> different sources, such as installed from CD vs FTP).  So -c is
> called for, right?  Is there any way to have rsync syncronize the
> date stamps of the files on the destination host (even the ones
> that aren't changed) so that subsequent rsyncs can omit -c?
--times which is part of -a


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