Developer discovers rsync 3.4.3 update broke backups, finds all recent commits attributed to AI assistant "Claude"
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2d agoenOpinion
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Summary
A developer reports that after updating to rsync 3.4.3, their incremental backup system using --compare-dest= arguments broke. Rolling back to version 3.4.1 resolved the issue. Upon investigating the GitHub source code, they discovered that all 36 commits since 3.4.1 were authored by "tridge and claude" (referring to Anthropic's Claude AI), leading to frustration about AI-generated code changes breaking functionality without proper changelog documentation.
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Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.
Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"
Oh for fuck's sakes.
So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.
Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.
So I go
