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For those commenting, I suggest you read the post linked by the rsync author:

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

(Disclosure: while I haven't talked with him in years, Tridge was my colleague and mentor for many years. I feel it is worth considering his view before joining a crusade)

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This should be the top comment.

I think it's pretty sad that he even had to write it. Quite a lot of judgement from people who aren't paying his bills.


The title at least sounds less like judgement and more analysis and more about AI assistance (and claude in particular) than rsync. Maybe I am too used to postmortems!

> I thought it would be a good idea to do the core structure for the new test suite in public on master first though given all the rage that has generated maybe that was a bad idea.

I don't entirely understand what this is saying. People wouldn't have been outraged if only the tests had been updated and/or he pushed solely on master - but he pushed breaking changes onto the release branch(es) too. Breaking workflows that have worked for years is a prime way to get people irate, and then seeing "Claude" in the commits just pours gasoline onto the fire.


It seems that wasn't the Claude part, though I haven't seen a full analysis of exactly what broke. I also only saw one report: are there multiple, or do you just perceive that?

Rsync has many options: I can totally believe that fixing a bug in one place broke someone's usage, to be fair.


I think that's an extremely well done response on his part.



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