Re: No actions delta file.

[ removing librsync-devel as this is a user issue ]
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:45, Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó wrote:
> > No. It will be very short though, as it should contain only a single
> > "copy" command.
> 
> Do you know where could I get documentation about the generated rsync delta 
> file, in order to discover this single "copy" command ?

There is not much documentation on the delta file format. You would need
to look at the code, and there are no guarentees that it won't change in
future versions.

> It is more efficient if I examine the generated delta file to see that it 
> contains a single "copy" command than generate another signature file or a 
> md5sum ;-)

I would generate an md5sum or md4sum. At some stage in the future the
signature and delta will include a whole-file md4sum for a variety of
other reasons.

The most efficient thing to do would be to use md5sum to generate a list
of md5sums at both ends, then only calculate delta's for files that have
changed... calculating a delta is heaps more work than calculating an
md5sum.

-- 
Donovan Baarda <[email protected]>



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