Bug 6376 - Trailing slashes avoid creating directories in daemon mode
Summary: Trailing slashes avoid creating directories in daemon mode
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.6
Hardware: x64 FreeBSD
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2009-05-19 10:30 UTC by Bernard Treves Brown
Modified: 2009-09-05 10:31 UTC (History)
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Description Bernard Treves Brown 2009-05-19 10:30:58 UTC 
The man page compares:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
and states that in the second case no foo directory is created on the client. 

This behaviour would be useful in daemon mode, so that
rsync -av host::module/lower/ /dest/
does not create a directory /dest/lower/ but copies everything into /dest/

Thanks
Comment 1 Matt McCutchen 2009-05-19 10:46:38 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> This behaviour would be useful in daemon mode, so that
> rsync -av host::module/lower/ /dest/
> does not create a directory /dest/lower/ but copies everything into /dest/

That is what the command currently does.  Are you proposing a change?
Comment 2 Wayne Davison 2009-09-05 10:31:23 UTC 
The only thing different about daemon mode is that a trailing module name does not create a trailing directory (which it kinda looks like it should).  For instance:

rsync -aiv host::module /dest/

That command does not create /dest/module since the module name is not a part of the path.