Moved the --append check so that files that don't need to be transferred

still get their non-content attributes updated, and combining --append
with --hard-links will not prevent the discovery of unchanged files.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/generator.c b/generator.c
index 909c0f4d..e189dddd 100644
--- a/generator.c
+++ b/generator.c
@@ -1743,9 +1743,6 @@ static void recv_generator(char *fname, struct file_struct *file, int ndx,
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
 
-	if (append_mode > 0 && sx.st.st_size >= F_LENGTH(file))
-		goto cleanup;
-
 	if (fnamecmp_type <= FNAMECMP_BASIS_DIR_HIGH)
 		;
 	else if (fnamecmp_type == FNAMECMP_FUZZY)
@@ -1770,6 +1767,10 @@ static void recv_generator(char *fname, struct file_struct *file, int ndx,
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
 
+	if (append_mode > 0 && sx.st.st_size >= F_LENGTH(file)) {
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
   prepare_to_open:
 	if (partialptr) {
 		sx.st = partial_st;