- The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
+ (Requires protocol 29.)
BUG FIXES:
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
file).
- - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
- It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
+ - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions changes in
+ directories and it now includes the full update information that
+ would be output without --dry-run at higher levels of verbosity.
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
specified).
+ - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
+ by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
- All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created
on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
- algorithm only creates a single directory of objects at a time.
+ algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time.
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
that it includes copies of identical files.
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
- Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.) Also added "address".
+ the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option
+ will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
- The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
+ 29.)
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
without recursion.
modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in
- an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer.
+ an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
+ versions. (Protocol 29 needed for full filter-rule support, but
+ backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.)
- Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
- Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
+ - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
+ they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since
+ that would indicate that something had gone very wrong).
+
SUPPORT FILES:
- Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
- Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
find a variable with at least 32 bits.
+ PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
+
+ - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after
+ each index integer indicating what kind of basis file is being used
+ for the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines).
+
+ - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
+ means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
+ (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
+ option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
+ filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
+ transfer scenarios).
+
+ - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the
+ subdir names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and
+ it always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in
+ the list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
+ directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
+
+ - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
+ is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and
+ the new --list-only option is enabled.
+
+ - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
+ they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
+ build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
+ wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
+
+ - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
+ excludes), a client sender will still initiate a send of the filter
+ rules to the receiver, but it only includes those rules that are
+ receiver-specific. Older protocols used to omit the sending of
+ excludes in this situation (since there were no receiver-specific
+ rules that survived --delete-excluded back then).
+
+ - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
+ option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the
+ --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
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