- Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to
be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
- - Added the "incoming chmod" daemon option to allow a module to specify
- what permissions changes should be applied to all files copied to the
- daemon.
+ - Added the "incoming chmod" and "outgoing chmod" daemon options that allow
+ a module to specify what permissions changes should be applied to all
+ files copied to and from the daemon.
- Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
--temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
+ - A new support script, files-to-excludes, will transform a list of files
+ into a set of include/exclude directives that will copy those files.
+
+ - A new option, --executability (-E) can be used to preserve just the
+ execute bit on files, for those times when using the --perms option is
+ not desired.
+
- Some minor documentation improvements.
- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.