clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+ - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync
+ now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
+ your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
+ for a locale such as UTF-8. Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
+ "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
+ digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
+ (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
+ escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
+ (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
+ the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below.
+
+ Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
+ so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
+ suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
+ old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
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.
+ - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping
+ high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
+
+ - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress,
+ --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated,
+ the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B
(permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt").
+ - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
+
- Some minor documentation improvements.
- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.