NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
Changes since 2.6.3:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+ sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+ - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+ that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
+
+ - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+ backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it copies identical files.
+ that it includes copies of identical files.
- Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
--link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
- patches dir)
+ patches dir and enhanced.)
- - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).
-
- - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir)
+ - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
+ - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
+
- 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.
+
+ - Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
+
+ - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+ put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+ option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+ non-recursive listing).
+
+ - Added the --omit-dir-times option which will avoid updating the
+ modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
+ really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
+ the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
+ times.
+
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ the socket.
+
+ - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().