check-rsync-version.sh

rsync --version

# should answer something like
# rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29

compile-latest-rsync.sh

curl -O http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
tar -xzvf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
rm rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
curl -O http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz
tar -xzvf rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz
rm rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz
cd rsync-3.0.9
patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
patch -p1 <patches/hfs-compression.diff
./prepare-source
./configure --prefix /usr/local
make
sudo make install

# source: http://librelist.com/browser//homebrew/2011/7/7/rsync/

octopress-latest-rsync.diff

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ task :rsync do
     exclude = "--exclude-from '#{File.expand_path('./rsync-exclude')}'"
   end
   puts "## Deploying website via Rsync"
-  ok_failed system("rsync -avze 'ssh -p #{ssh_port}' #{exclude} #{rsync_args} #{"--delete" unless rsync_delete == false} #{public_dir}/ #{ssh_user}:#{document_root}")
+  ok_failed system("/usr/local/bin/rsync -avze 'ssh -p #{ssh_port}' #{exclude} #{rsync_args} #{"--delete" unless rsync_delete == false} #{public_dir}/ #{ssh_user}:#{document_root}")
 end