Some improvements to the solaris xattr routines.

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 0e93d4c..60b5de4 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -1147,7 +1147,8 @@ is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead.  The transfer may be
 faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and
 destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the
 "disk" is actually a networked filesystem).  This is the default when both
-the source and destination are specified as local paths.
+the source and destination are specified as local paths, but only if no
+batch-writing option is in effect.
 
 dit(bf(-x, --one-file-system)) This tells rsync to avoid crossing a
 filesystem boundary when recursing.  This does not limit the user's ability
@@ -2671,10 +2672,14 @@ itemization(
   also disabled).
   it() You may also specify any of the modifiers for the "+" or "-" rules
   (above) in order to have the rules that are read in from the file
-  default to having that modifier set.  For instance, "merge,-/ .excl" would
+  default to having that modifier set (except for the bf(!) modifier, which
+  would not be useful).  For instance, "merge,-/ .excl" would
   treat the contents of .excl as absolute-path excludes,
   while "dir-merge,s .filt" and ":sC" would each make all their
-  per-directory rules apply only on the sending side.
+  per-directory rules apply only on the sending side.  If the merge rule
+  specifies sides to affect (via the bf(s) or bf(r) modifier or both),
+  then the rules in the file must not specify sides (via a modifier or
+  a rule prefix such as bf(hide)).
 )
 
 Per-directory rules are inherited in all subdirectories of the directory