- one character set to another during the transfer. (Currently must be
- manually enabled via configure's --enable-iconv option.)
-
- - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
- side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
- older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
- an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
- or it will be silently ignored.*
+ one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make
+ this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If
+ compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure, and then
+ rebuild. If you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by
+ default, you can specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default
+ value for the --iconv option that you wish to use. For example,
+ "--enable-iconv=." is a good choice. See the rsync manpage for an
+ explanation of the --iconv option's settings.
+
+ - Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override the default list of
+ file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
+
+ - The daemon's default for "dont compress" was extended to include:
+ *.7z *.mp[34] *.mov *.avi *.ogg *.jpg *.jpeg
+ The matching routine was also optimized to run more quickly.
+
+ - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
+ deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older
+ versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
+
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
+ about extraneous files without deleting anything. If you're not sure
+ what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious --max-delete=-1,
+ as both old and new versions will treat that as the same request (though
+ older versions don't warn).