I used an rsync option without properly understanding what it means and now I have lost all the data in the destination disk *facedesk*.
@hipsterelectron @halva should have more carefully understood what extraneous means.
@dunderhead @hipsterelectron @halva
Can you think of a way to improve that short description? (I usually find that people who misunderstood something have unobvious phrasing improvement suggestions.)
@robryk @hipsterelectron @halva prefacing that I am a noob, the options specify that it "deletes existing files on destination, if not part of source manifest" (I remember seeing a message informing it transmit a manifest something before the actual rsync started)?
@robryk @dunderhead @halva "non-tracked" maybe? in the cli for the zip crate i note which terms are special and have a more extended description for those below
@dunderhead My condolences
@dunderhead I have to check rsync flags every time.
Also, if you're syncing directories then having a trailing slash on one of the directories is significant, but please don't ask me which.
@natarasee @dunderhead Trailing slash matters for any source directories. Not having one means "copy the directory itself" (putting it in the destination as a subdirectory), while having one means "copy every file from this directory" without copying the directory itself.
@dunderhead been there. So sorry. Rsync should be known as rsink!