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Mention that sorting the --files-from input is helpful.

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Wayne Davison
2011-01-03 19:49:05 -08:00
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@@ -1491,6 +1491,12 @@ bf(--files-from) filenames are being sent from one host to another, the
filenames will be translated from the sending host's charset to the
receiving host's charset.
NOTE: sorting the list of files in the --files-from input helps rsync to be
more efficient, as it will avoid re-visiting the path elements that are shared
between adjacent entries. If the input is not sorted, some path elements
(implied directories) may end up being scanned multiple times, and rsync will
eventually unduplicate them after they get turned into file-list elements.
dit(bf(-0, --from0)) This tells rsync that the rules/filenames it reads from a
file are terminated by a null ('\0') character, not a NL, CR, or CR+LF.
This affects bf(--exclude-from), bf(--include-from), bf(--files-from), and any