Wayne Davison

Thanks for the report. This is fixed in a182507bef2d0cd92052b3c5ebaf1d98278e0dad.

See commit 950730313de994d191ba2d5be575e97690b355e8.

I missed that the exclude was a filesystem-root dot dir. This is now fixed in 71c2b5d0e386b845fb2f4d427568451f098008ff. Thanks for testing!

As mentioned in other bugs, the rsync website's [download page](https://rsync.samba.org/download.html) has a whole topic on binaries. A few of the most popular targets are constantly created in the github actions...

xxhash is much faster than SHA1 (in my experience) and is the current preferred checksum method. However, adding any new checksum to the negotiated checksum list is quite easy. One...

re: Adler-32 - we always have to have some kind of rolling checksum as the first part of finding a matching chunk of data since it would be too slow...

Well, "all its uses" turns out to not yet be right. I discovered that the xattr code continues to use MD5 checksums for hashing large xattr chunks even when another...

I've run it under valgrind without any issues reported, so this is a bit perplexing. I'll check into it more soon.

Thanks. I had an extremely silly bug (464555ea923b32f3504678d05bc7de9205e5c8da). With that fixed, your test case works fine.

Dot dirs don't have any adverse effect, certainly not in 3.2.6. And version 3.1.2 can't have this problem unless someone is back-porting newer code. This bug tracker is just for...