Add rsync to git bash for windows

add-rsync-to-git-bash.md

How to Add rsync to Git Bash for Windows 10

Download the package: http://www2.futureware.at/~nickoe/msys2-mirror/msys/x86_64/rsync-3.1.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Extract it and move rsync.exe to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin.

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A quick google search brings up these sites:

• http://archlinux.arkena.net/archive/packages/r/rsync/
• http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/

The process should be the same. Download, extract and put the .exe into a directory that is part of your PATH.
Please note that I did not verify above downloads. Use them at your own risk.

Link no longer works, just search for "rsync" in the official msys2 repo instead: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/
The newest version requires two additional packages to make it work: libxxhash and liblz4.
The packages are now compressed with zstd, unpack them inside git bash with zstd -d <package> or use 7zip with ZStandard support: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/releases

Thank you @fotcorn for your note, For my case I also need to download the http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libzstd-1.4.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. So total of four packages

1. rsync: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/rsync-3.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
2. libxxhash: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libxxhash-0.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
3. liblzr: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/liblz4-1.9.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
4. libzstd: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libzstd-1.4.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Copy four libs to the same folder, then use https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/releases, to extract all of them. After that, copy folder "usr" to "C:\Program Files\Git". And it works

thanks for your good works,it worked!