Improved the doc for --existing and --ignore-existing.

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Wayne Davison committed 2006-05-05 20:41:17 +00:00
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@@ -905,14 +905,14 @@ treated like a mount-point. Symlinks to non-directories are unaffected
by this option.
dit(bf(--existing, --ignore-non-existing)) This tells rsync to skip
creating files (i.e. non-directory items) that do not exist yet on the
destination. If this option is
creating files (including directories) that do not exist
yet on the destination. If this option is
combined with the bf(--ignore-existing) option, no files will be updated
(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete missing files).
(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete extraneous files).
dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files (i.e.
non-directory items) that
already exist on the destination. See also bf(--existing).
dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files that
already exist on the destination (this does em(not) ignore existing
directores, or nothing would get done). See also bf(--existing).
dit(bf(--remove-sent-files)) This tells rsync to remove from the sending
side the files and/or symlinks that are newly created or whose content is