How not to compress certain files

[mruprich]

Hi,
is there any plan to follow up on this change c11467a ?

Since that commit, skipping compression with certain files is impossible so everything gets compressed. I understand that skip-compress=LIST never really worked well, but now even the default skip list is not doing anything. So just wondering if there is any plan to revisit the idea for some sort of a data saving method for skipping compression with certain files.

Is there any other trick to do this when not using a transfer to a daemon?

Thanks and regards,
Michal Ruprich

[mruprich]

Btw. not sure how to find out but does rsync actually tries to compress every file when -z is used? Meaning that already compressed files like .gz are also being compressed before sending?