On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Of course, how it does that is a mystery to me - without fully
>> comparing both versions, how can it create a diff? I guess that's
>> what made it PhD material...
>
> It doesn't create a diff. It computes checksums for pieces of the file
> and transfers those.
>
> Apparently, though, it first checks the modification time before doing
> all that checksum stuff.
Right, and if you want, you can use the --size-only arg to rsync to
disable the timestamp check and made it only a size check ... so, if the
size doesn't change, the page wasn't actually modified ... and, I can't
think of many situations where if hte file changed, the size wouldn't
change by *at least* one character, but I imagine it could happen ...
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