--link-dest=DIR hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
-z, --compress compress file data during the transfer
--compress-level=NUM explicitly set compression level
+ --skip-compress=LIST skip compressing files with suffix in LIST
-C, --cvs-exclude auto-ignore files in the same way CVS does
-f, --filter=RULE add a file-filtering RULE
-F same as --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'
file. (If an existing destination file has a modification time equal to the
source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.)
-In the current implementation of bf(--update), a difference of file format
-between the sender and receiver is always
-considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what date
-is on the objects. In other words, if the source has a directory or a
-symlink where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur
-regardless of the timestamps. This might change in the future (feel
-free to comment on this on the mailing list if you have an opinion).
+Note that this does not affect the copying of symlinks or other special
+files. Also, a difference of file format between the sender and receiver
+is always considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what
+date is on the objects. In other words, if the source has a directory
+where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur regardless of
+the timestamps.
dit(bf(--inplace)) This causes rsync not to create a new copy of the file
and then move it into place. Instead rsync will overwrite the existing
bf(--recursive) option was also enabled.
dit(bf(--max-delete=NUM)) This tells rsync not to delete more than NUM
-files or directories.
-Beginning with version 3.0.0, you may specify bf(--max-delete=0) to
-be warned about any extraneous files in the destination, but be very
-careful to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client, or the
-option will be silently ignored. (A 3.0.0 client will die with an
-error if the remote rsync is not new enough to handle the situation.)
-This is useful when mirroring very large trees to prevent disasters.
+files or directories. If that limit is exceeded, a warning is output
+and rsync exits with an error code of 25 (new for 3.0.0).
+
+Also new for version 3.0.0, you may specify bf(--max-delete=0) to be warned
+about any extraneous files in the destination without removing any of them.
+Older clients interpreted this as "unlimited", so if you don't know what
+version the client is, you can use the less obvious bf(--max-delete=-1) as
+a backward-compatible way to specify that no deletions be allowed (though
+older versions didn't warn when the limit was exceeded).
dit(bf(--max-size=SIZE)) This tells rsync to avoid transferring any
file that is larger than the specified SIZE. The SIZE value can be
because it takes advantage of the implicit information in the matching data
blocks that are not explicitly sent over the connection.
+See the bf(--skip-compress) option for the default list of file suffixes
+that will not be compressed.
+
dit(bf(--compress-level=NUM)) Explicitly set the compression level to use
(see bf(--compress)) instead of letting it default. If NUM is non-zero,
the bf(--compress) option is implied.
+dit(bf(--skip-compress=LIST)) Override the list of file suffixes that will
+not be compressed. The bf(LIST) should be one or more file suffixes
+(without the dot) separated by slashes (/).
+
+You may specify an empty string to indicate that no file should be skipped.
+
+Simple character-class matching is supported: each must consist of a list
+of letters inside the square brackets (e.g. no special classes, such as
+"[:alpha:]", are supported).
+
+The characters asterisk (*) and question-mark (?) have no special meaning.
+
+Here's an example that specifies 6 suffixes to skip (since 1 of the 5 rules
+matches 2 suffixes):
+
+verb( --skip-compress=gz/jpg/mp[34]/7z/bz2)
+
+The default list of suffixes that will not be compressed is this (several
+of these are newly added for 3.0.0):
+
+verb( gz/zip/z/rpm/deb/iso/bz2/t[gb]z/7z/mp[34]/mov/avi/ogg/jpg/jpeg)
+
+This list will be replaced by your bf(--skip-compress) list in all but one
+situation: a copy from a daemon rsync will add your skipped suffixes to
+its list of non-compressing files (and its list may be configured to a
+different default).
+
dit(bf(--numeric-ids)) With this option rsync will transfer numeric group
and user IDs rather than using user and group names and mapping them
at both ends.
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