BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- files during the delete scan!
+ files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
- Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
transfer.
- Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
- rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
+ rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size.
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
+ to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
+ of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
+
+ - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer.
+ transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
+ that are set with information about the transfer.)
- When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
should start. For example, if you specify a source path of
- rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
+ rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).