Mention the latest improvements.

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Wayne Davison
2006-01-30 18:19:55 +00:00
parent 90cf7d199f
commit 63344ad4e1

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@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
--dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being
able to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
- Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
--delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
@@ -111,6 +114,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
- Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
- Added the "incoming chmod" daemon option to allow a module to specify
what permissions changes should be applied to all files copied to the
daemon.
- Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
@@ -131,11 +138,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
- Added the --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving
- Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving
rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This
makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include,
exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed
to hold the resulting files.
makes it easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and
end up with just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
- If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without
@@ -152,6 +158,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
- Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the
TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync.
- Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
--temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
- Some minor documentation improvements.
- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.