dit(bf(--ignore-errors)) Tells --delete to go ahead and delete files
even when there are IO errors.
-dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if
-they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to
-cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination
-contains a directory of the same name.
-
-Since this option was added, deletions were reordered to be done depth-first
-so it is hardly ever needed anymore except in very obscure cases.
+dit(bf(--force)) This option used to alter the behavior of the --delete
+option to force deletion of non-empty directories, but that happens now
+anyway because rsync does deletes in depth-first order. The only known
+difference that --force makes now is an obscure case where the source is a
+non-directory (for example a file or a symlink) but the destination is a
+directory that contains a directory by the same name as the source while
+--recursive mode is in effect.
dit(bf(-B , --block-size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in
the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details.
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff