rsync - Jun 2006 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3844] New: --delete with --dry-run no longer reports files to be deleted

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3844

           Summary: --delete with --dry-run no longer reports files to be
                    deleted
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.8
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: Dave@WolfeWorks.net
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


Prior to 2.6.8 I was able to see which files would be deleted using:

rsync -t --delete -R -z -C -l --safe-links --exclude [...] -n -r -v .

(multiple --exclude options and files removed for brevity)
Now when -n is removed, files are deleted that weren't reported when -n was
specified.


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------- Comment #1 from hashproduct+rsync@gmail.com  2006-06-17 09:18 MST
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I could not reproduce this behavior from the information you gave.  Could you
please find the simplest case of source and destination directories in which
rsync exhibits the bad behavior and then post tar files of the source and
destination directories in their original state?


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------- Comment #2 from pauljohn@ku.edu  2006-06-20 22:49 MST -------
I have observed this same problem in the rsync that was recently installed in
fedora core 5 updates (rsync-2.6.8-1.FC5.1).  The -v switch corrects the
problem.  I can post the tar file if you want, but I don't think you should
need it. I give you the recipe instead.  Observe. I just copied the first tmp
file I could find into test2 and without -v, it is not mentioned.

[pauljohn@pols125 ~]$ cd /tmp/
[pauljohn@pols125 tmp]$ mkdir test1
[pauljohn@pols125 tmp]$ mkdir test2
[pauljohn@pols125 tmp]$ cp VitaePosted.lyx test1/
[pauljohn@pols125 tmp]$ rsync -ran test1 test2
[pauljohn@pols125 tmp]$ rsync -ravn test1 test2
building file list ... done
test1/
test1/VitaePosted.lyx

sent 121 bytes  received 32 bytes  306.00 bytes/sec
total size is 6047  speedup is 39.52


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------- Comment #3 from hashproduct+rsync@gmail.com  2006-06-21 08:03 MST
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Paul, all you are seeing is that, as of rsync 2.6.7, -n no longer implies -v
(see OLDNEWS) and you have to provide -v yourself if you want information on
what would be changed.

A mismatch between what rsync says it will do with -n -v and what it actually
does is more worrisome.  If anyone can find a reproducible test case for
Dave's
problem, please post it.


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Dave@WolfeWorks.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




------- Comment #4 from Dave@WolfeWorks.net  2006-07-01 11:37 MST -------
Same situation with this month's outdated files and it displayed the files
to
be deleted, so I can't explain what I saw when I filed this bug since
nothing
else changed since then that I'm aware of. However, I don't control the
client
rsync version.


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