It's very sad to see #rsync getting polluted with LLM slop now.
Even more sad, given who is doing it.
People are talking angrily about "the maintainer" and suggesting "this guy" [should have his commit bit revoked] etc. apparently not realising that "this guy" is Tridge, both the original author of rsync and creator of samba. His PhD thesis "Efficient Sorting & Synchronization Algorithms" which describes the original rsync algorithm. Still worth a read, even now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
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