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An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

52 mentions on Hacker News by 47 people: 3 stories, 49 comments · first 2022-07-02 · latest 2026-10-19

Mentions per year 52 mentions · busiest year 2026 (43)
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    Rsync – Release manager change doesn't have provenance
    story by fock · 2026-10-19 · 1 comment
  2. …--reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now": https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen...
    comment by Flimm · 2026-10-03 · in cp: -r or -R?
  3. See https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/1087 From the comments: > "Introduced while fixing CVE-2026-53801. I have likely found what the issue is, I truly hate symlinks Might not be able to fix tonight but will be done within the…
    comment by romaniitedomum · 2026-10-02 · in Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
  4. …then we must safely assume that this will be the case for many other developers as well. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues
    comment by mrweasel · 2026-10-02 · in Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
  5. …at how the good people and claude over at rsync are fixing all their bad security bugs currently: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/42f7c32ce51d8e0... Also: any Linux-distro-bugtracker... So: while running in circles might be a…
    comment by fock · 2026-09-22 · in AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
  6. …that the author wouldn't have written, I start to pay attention. Except the author did write it. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/959#issuecommen... Which is part of the problem with all of this nonsense right now - everyone is…
    comment by cthalupa · 2026-06-06 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  7. > Written with claude. No. The reversion commit references https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/959 . In that GitHub issue is this comment: > The change to zero memory was my idea and my change. It was a reaction to a security…
    comment by CaliforniaKarl · 2026-06-06 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  8. …shouldn't churn your code just for funsies (at least not in a production context), LLMs do this: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/30656c5e358b1c6 ... Most of that is blindly changing calls do functions like do_foo(args) (which…
    comment by amluto · 2026-06-06 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  9. …it makes any modification. It doesn't mean the change was written by claude. It was written by me. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/959#issuecommen...
    comment by delusional · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  10. Was just looking at commits and came across a commit and its revert original commit: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/d046525de39315d... ``` - if (!ptr) - ptr = malloc(num * size); - else if (ptr == do_calloc) + if (!ptr || ptr…
    comment by GodelNumbering · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  11. …posts there. However I did not find the maintainers response. Of interest is this post here: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... which echos the same concern which was raised up thread, however, I failed to find…
    comment by runarberg · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  12. …you'd choose if you wanted to make the current situation of rsync look like not a big deal. [0] https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/graphs/commit-activity
    comment by germanjoey · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  13. …failures. A Co-authored-by line is not enough by itself to establish root cause." - https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
    comment by skeledrew · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  14. …severe. Later in the comments, someone attempted to provide a list of issues that had been added: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... . The list included several failures to build or run rsync that appear to…
    comment by atmavatar · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  15. …tested? If people think they can do better, I want to see their forks and them keeping up with it. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/graphs/contributors?fr...
    comment by rovr138 · 2026-06-05 · in Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
  16. But this one can: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/905 was caused by https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/4fa7156ccdb2ad3... and I find it pretty absurd. I don’t think AI assisted code is bad, but I really question…
    comment by Eufrat · 2026-06-05 · in Rsync and outrage
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    Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
    story by tosti · 2026-06-04 · 0 comments
  18. The maintainer answer: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
    comment by cirelli94 · 2026-06-03 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  19. …when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as: Can't use rsync with absolute paths: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922 Links mode is broken: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915 The scale of the commits,…
    comment by happymellon · 2026-06-03 · in Rsync and outrage
  20. …my experience at all) it is very hard to review changes without that background knowledge. [1]: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/939 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking%2C_Fast_and_Slow
    comment by cyphar · 2026-06-01
  21. …shouldn't churn your code just for funsies (at least not in a production context), LLMs do this: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/30656c5e358b1c6... Most of that is blindly changing calls do functions like do_foo(args) (which…
    comment by amluto · 2026-06-01
  22. …user[1] compiled a nonexhaustive list of 7 issues they found introduced because of the changes. [1] https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
    comment by culi · 2026-06-01 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  23. …will also fix it eventually too). * The other bug affects precisely the people impacted by the CVE https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/897 You probably don't want to revert in this scenario. If someone is hit by this bug and is…
    comment by newtonsmethod · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  24. …itself was introduced in 30656c5e by Claude Code, and I guess.. improper human review and testing. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/30656c5e Someone using AI to bisect recent rsync. https://github.com/themgt/rsync-compare-link-d…
    comment by melchebo · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  25. …AI on rsync, where you, and me included, have absolutely zero insight in how he used Claude. What https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... shows is that it no longer works on older Darwin and Linux < 5.6, which has…
    comment by ejpir · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  26. …is ... Tridge got Claude to rewrite all the tests in Python and delete the old shell test suite: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/903/ That's ballsy. I feel like if I used Claude heavily for a piece of code, an existing test…
    comment by mort96 · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  27. Yes, according to the git diff and the comment here https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... . A change in the sys calls that are used. That's pretty sensitive in general I think; I can see if it were introduced by…
    comment by yw3410 · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  28. …specialized training nor qualifications! In terms of abuse, I was thinking of this issue thread: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929
    comment by foldr · 2026-05-31 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  29. …of software is a form of "Open Source contributor abuse" discussed frequently on Hacker News [1] https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... > The issue tracker is not a place for you to farm viral social media posts.…
    comment by helsinkiandrew · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  30. The issue is apparently this commit (someone did a git bisect): https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/859d44fa4f14207... Which is a fix to the security issue CVE-2026-29518: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29518 A CVE…
    comment by reliablereason · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  31. Actually it is, someone compiled allll the actual bug reports tracing back to AI: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
    comment by mschuster91 · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  32. No: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/
    comment by mort96 · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  33. …the slop commit here? And why is that commit evidence that tridge has lost his mind to the machine? https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/
    comment by mattbee · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  34. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... has a partial list
    comment by cwillu · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  35. …most of the ones generated by Claude are testsuite changes, or at least labelled as such. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/
    comment by scared_together · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
  36. …rsync was 67k LOC as of 236417c (latest not obviously vibecoded commit it seems?).[1] Wow. 1: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...
    comment by rsyring · 2026-05-31 · in Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
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    Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
    story by justdotJS · 2026-05-31 · 480 comments
  38. The first actually constructive attempt of figuring out the root cause can be found in this issue: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/897
    comment by jasonvorhe · 2026-05-30 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  39. …Fediverse outrage whenever LLMs are involved is often just lazy and uninformed. To quote this PR: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/928 > NOTE: This also affects backported rsync versions when they're used on the Receiver: >…
    comment by jasonvorhe · 2026-05-30 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  40. …the (likely) bad commits with issues open against them, just to show that this isn't a one-off: - https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/4fa7156ccdb2ad3... : https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/905…
    comment by Tiberium · 2026-05-30 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  41. …review your code and fix issues without knowing the full implications of it) I suspect this commit: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/4fa7156ccdb2ad3... , appears to be changing behavior and changes like these shouldn't be in a…
    comment by himata4113 · 2026-05-30 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  42. Seems like 3.4.2 was already vibe-maintained: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/v3.4.2
    comment by omgtehlion · 2026-05-30 · in Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
  43. …writes, and not supporting threads, beyond the fact that no threading code exists in rsync's repo: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/blob/236417cf354220669... ) So while "the dead time isn't waiting for network trips between files"…
    comment by nh2 · 2026-02-04 · in 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
  44. There's another one: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/715
    comment by samueloph · 2025-01-16 · in Rsync vulnerabilities
  45. There's a serious regression in the fixes: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/702 It impacts those who need to use `-r` (recursive) together with `-H` (preserve hardlinks),
    comment by samueloph · 2025-01-15 · in Rsync vulnerabilities
  46. …tool named “dar”.[1] There’s also 18 hits on Stackoverflow. [1] Via the link from another comment https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/499
    comment by keybored · 2024-11-09 · in Cache Directory Tagging Specification (2004)
  47. Support in rsync seems to be lacking, unfortunately: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/499
    comment by Rygian · 2024-11-09 · in Cache Directory Tagging Specification (2004)
  48. …good: "A few more minor tweaks." "A few more minor changes." "Some extra file-list safety checks." https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commits/master Those are the full commit messages. By way of comparison, here's what commit messages to git…
    comment by js2 · 2022-08-02 · in Rsync client-side arbitrary file write vulnerability
  49. …glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. Clever parsing code, multiple commits to get it right ( https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commit/2f7c583143bc6e8090213... , https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commit/3d7015afa223494e33184... ), no…
    comment by testplzignore · 2022-08-02 · in Rsync client-side arbitrary file write vulnerability
  50. https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commit/b7231c7d02cfb65d291af... This newly added function, add_implied_include , which was committed as a part of the patch gives me the creeps. I do not claim to be competent enough to work with a utility…
    comment by phoe-krk · 2022-08-02 · in Rsync client-side arbitrary file write vulnerability