rsync - Apr 2005 - buggy? error reporting on remote symlinks

Is this considered a bug?

$ /usr/local/rsync-cvs/bin/rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other
skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other"

sent 16 bytes  received 40 bytes  7.47 bytes/sec
total size is 4  speedup is 0.07
$ ls -l /Users/nick/tmp/other
-rw-r--r--  1 nick  nick  0 22 Apr 11:22 /Users/nick/tmp/other


Looks pretty regular to me...

The true non-regular file is actually at the far end, on plum:

$ ls -l ~/tmp/other
lrwxr-xr-x  1 nick  nick  4 Apr 22 11:22 /home/nick/tmp/other -> file


Shouldn't the local rsync be reporting the error with the remote pathname?
What it currently reports is factually inaccurate.

Nicholas Clark

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Nicholas Clark
wrote:
> $ /usr/local/rsync-cvs/bin/rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other
> skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other"
Yes, that's a bug.  It's caused by the specification of a destination
file instead of a directory, so the generator (on the receiving side)
outputs about the remote file using its receiving-side name.  If you
specified ~/tmp as the destination, it would have said this:

    skipping non-regular file "other"

I'll check in a fix that makes rsync use the file's generic name when
outputting about the remote file in a single-file transfer.  Thanks,

..wayne..