rsync - Apr 2024 - [Bug 2294] Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead of delete/re-send

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294

--- Comment #41 from Mihnea-Costin Grigore <mihnea at zulu.ro> ---
The discussion about file systems like ZFS/BTRFS/etc. and their various
snapshot mechanisms is off-topic relative to this feature request, since they
are very different technologies used for different purposes.

rsync is used commonly to synchronise at the *file level* between very
different operating systems -- from Linux to Windows, from macOS to Linux, etc.
It also has multiple features to allow filtering and selecting files within the
source and destination directories, thus only synchronising a subset of files.
We need a solution that works with the flexibility of rsync itself, and
snapshots (useful as they are) do not fit that at all.

This would be a very useful feature to have as part of rsync, made evident by
the many requests both here and on other discussion forums over the past almost
20 (!) years. Can we rather discuss what the blockers are for the existing
patches? What stops them from inclusion -- is it quality, functionality,
compatibility, test coverage, something else? Working to fix that and making
the already existing patches acceptable for inclusion would appear to be the
most constructive course of action, rather than deflecting the request.

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