rsync - Jan 2008 - rsync 3's -E and -X

So,

It might be a little late to rock this boat, but I just was turned on  
to rsync 3.

So, Apple's changes to rsync to support metadata has -E as:
         -E  --extended-attributes   copy extended attributes,  
resource forks
This was done in OS X 10.4, in April of 2005.


It looks like rsync 3 though is moving -E to -X, and changing what -E  
does:
-X, --xattrs preserve extended attributes
-E, --executability preserve executability

Was there any thought of switching what these two flags do in rsync  
3?  If not, this will break compatibility with scripts on OS X for  
people who install rsync 3 themselves.

- Josh

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:23:16PM +0000, Josh Durham
wrote:
> It looks like rsync 3 though is moving -E to -X, and changing what -E does:
Rsync has used the -X option for xattr data in the patches since the
beginning.  The xattrs.diff first appeared in the patches dir in mid
2005, but existed prior to that (it was created by Red Hat).  Rsync's -E
option has been released in 3 releases already, so that's not going to
change either.

You can, however, feel free to use popt aliases to map -E to -X, -AX, or
whatever you like if you'd like to continue to use -E.  See my prior
emails on the subject for the details.

..wayne..