slashes. The old behavior of crossing slashes can be achieved by using a
double-asterisk ('**') anywhere in a pattern. Note that this can change
some existing exclude patterns in a subtle way. Also note that if the
remote side is an older release the processing on the two sides might not
be exactly the same when there's no double-asterisk, which can affect which
files are excluded from deletion, but they're close enough that people will
probably not notice. I considered changing the protocol version and
checking the remote_version number to ensure the same processing on both
sides, but the exclude patterns are pre-processed before the remote version
number is known and it's just not worth going through extraordinary efforts.
Suggested by Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
only for symlinks that point outside the source tree. Suggested by Charles
Hines <chuck_hines@VNET.IBM.COM> in PR#1376. Also apply the option to any
symbolic links in the source portion of a path when --relative is used,
as suggested by Francis Montagnac <Francis.Montagnac@sophia.inria.fr> on
the rsync mailing list in a message titled "New option: --copy-parent-links".
multiple SRCs. Also moved the --suffix option to show up right after
--backup and included the default backup suffix and block size along with
their corresponding options rather than at the end. Copied the new help
message to rsync.yo and README and used the Usage also in the SYNOPSIS
section at the top of rsync.yo rather than the different one that used
"path" instead of SRC and DEST. That last change was inspired by a
suggestion from Michael Bleyer in PR #1523.
- by popular demand I have changed the behaviour of the --delete
option. It should now work as "expected" for even those people silly
enough not to read the man page. rsync will now only look for
candidate files/directories to delete in directories that are
explicitly transferred from the sender
- updated the README a bit
- try to fail a bit more gracefully when rsync runs out of disk
space. I don't think this issues is fully resolved yet
