Bug 4473 - Rsync tries to delete in dir it didn't create due to --dry-run
Summary: Rsync tries to delete in dir it didn't create due to --dry-run
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.0
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2007-03-27 18:20 UTC by Matt McCutchen
Modified: 2008-07-26 10:07 UTC (History)
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Description Matt McCutchen 2007-03-27 18:20:00 UTC 
Run the following in an empty directory:

mkdir src src/dir dest
rsync --dry-run -r --del src/ dest/

Result:

rsync: opendir "/home/matt/test/opendir-error/dest/dir" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(989) [sender=3.0.0cvs]

Rsync shouldn't be trying to delete in a directory it didn't actually create due to --dry-run.

The problem goes away if I pass --no-ir .
Comment 1 Wayne Davison 2007-07-14 17:08:06 UTC 
I fixed this the other day.