Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.6:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
+ clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
+ characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
--link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+ - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
+ that have a path component containing a slash.
+
+ - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
+ the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
+
+ - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
+ suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
+ reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
+
+ - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
+ --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
+ not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
+ block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
+ requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
+
- Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
files).
- 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.
now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
- If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
- without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure
+ without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure
that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
- The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
- file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+ to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+ a total of 9999.
+
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
+ 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 --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving
+ rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This
+ 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
+ all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course,
+ the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote
+ rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+
+ - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super-
+ user activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such
+ as devices to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0,
+ and is also useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will
+ be output if the receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+
+ - 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.
- Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+ - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to
+ be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to
+ do less string copying.
+
+ - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
+ replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all
+ the output going to the terminal.
+
+ - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
the newly patched feature.
+ - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
+ such as ~/.popt.