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...ourse, it would be even better if one could implement a --truncate option, too (probably easiest to slip it into the existing code post-transfer, right before the time stamp is set to that of the source file). The post-processing is quite simple though: ~> ls -l original-file.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 steinhh astuser 1010880 Jan 3 2017 original-file.txt ~> touch --reference=original-file.txt /tmp/reference ~> truncate -s 0 original-file.txt ~> touch --reference=/tmp/reference original-file.txt ~> ls -l original-file.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 steinhh astuser 0 Jan 3 2017 original-file.txt I'...

Hello everyone :) I'd like to follow up on this thread of mine, if that's okay? Is there anything I could do to get the feature functionality of "using rsync to create a thin (attributes-only) copy" upstream on the long term? Could I talk to a developer, for hire? I'm really professionally interested in such a feature, as it would greatly make our lives in the

...etter if one could implement a --truncate option, too (probably easiest to slip it into the existing code post-transfer, right before the time stamp is set to that of the source file). > > The post-processing is quite simple though: > > ~> ls -l original-file.txt > -rw-r--r--. 1 steinhh astuser 1010880 Jan 3 2017 original-file.txt > ~> touch --reference=original-file.txt /tmp/reference > ~> truncate -s 0 original-file.txt > ~> touch --reference=/tmp/reference original-file.txt > ~> ls -l original-file.txt > -rw-r--r--. 1 steinhh astuser 0 Jan 3 2017...