So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but tar + ssh can definitely accomodate the use case of “transmit all of these files over an SSH connection to another host”.
🔗 tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync
This is such a silly stance IMO. Purity culture anyone? Are people like Drew going to continue to reduce their list of acceptable software until they’re forced to not us any software because an LLM was used in the pipeline somewhere? Dumb.
