Mirror size & completeness of binaries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 30, 2018, at 12:15, Michael wrote:

> On 2018-03-29, at 8:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> The mirrors don't run MacPorts; they use rsync.
> 
> rsync cannot detect renames?

I didn't think it did.

I did find this article which describes a method that can be used to achieve it, however, by first hard-linking everything to a new location, then syncing, and then deleting the files at the old location.

https://lincolnloop.com/blog/detecting-file-moves-renames-rsync/

But before we go reorganizing anything I want to understand why it's necessary.