rsync ownership oddity - bug or feature?

Sat Apr 23 03:24:02 UTC 2022

On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 08:41 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> I live in hope:
> https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/issues/309#issuecomment-1105391484

The maintainer just said he believed he would merge that patch into the
next release. Good news, though I guess we will need to wait for at
least 23.04 to see it as standard in Ubuntu.

The patch isn't perfect - it protects all existing directories in the
target tree, rather than just the topmost one. So still a bit
counterintuitive, but good even so.

Big thanks to Wayne Davison (the maintainer) and Antti Tapaninen (who
wrote the initial patch).

Regards, K.

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