Making files public when doing an rsync with gsutil

Question

When doing the usual gsutil -m rsync -r . gs://bucket/ I would like the files to be public by default instead of having to do a gsutil -m acl set -R -a public-read gs://bucket afterwards.

Is it possible ?

Answer 1

gsutil now have a -a flag to set a canned ACL on copied files:

gsutil -m rsync -a public-read -r . gs://bucket/