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Improve description of --max-delete.

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Wayne Davison
2013-01-20 11:30:08 -08:00
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@@ -1422,15 +1422,17 @@ using bf(--delete-after), and it used to be non-functional unless the
bf(--recursive) option was also enabled.
dit(bf(--max-delete=NUM)) This tells rsync not to delete more than NUM
files or directories. If that limit is exceeded, a warning is output
and rsync exits with an error code of 25 (new for 3.0.0).
files or directories. If that limit is exceeded, all further deletions are
skipped through the end of the transfer. At the end, rsync outputs a warning
(including a count of the skipped deletions) and exits with an error code
of 25 (unless some more important error condition also occurred).
Also new for version 3.0.0, you may specify bf(--max-delete=0) to be warned
Beginning with version 3.0.0, you may specify bf(--max-delete=0) to be warned
about any extraneous files in the destination without removing any of them.
Older clients interpreted this as "unlimited", so if you don't know what
version the client is, you can use the less obvious bf(--max-delete=-1) as
a backward-compatible way to specify that no deletions be allowed (though
older versions didn't warn when the limit was exceeded).
really old versions didn't warn when the limit was exceeded).
dit(bf(--max-size=SIZE)) This tells rsync to avoid transferring any
file that is larger than the specified SIZE. The SIZE value can be