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by e40 5 days ago
While I'm grateful for all Andrew has done to create and maintain rsync, I rely heavily on it for backing up files between machines on my home network, so I've spent the time to figure out how to pin the Homebrew version of rsync to 3.4.1 because the bugs in the subsequent two versions really scare me (as does the original report that triggered all this).

Here is the process I used to do it, which was way more complex than I thought it would be:

https://gist.github.com/e40/caa67c1b8d439a528695f996d0519d8e