NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
Changes since 2.6.3:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
+ sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
+
BUG FIXES:
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
+
+ - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+ backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+
+ - Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
+ without recursion.
+
+ - Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
+ put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
+ option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
+ non-recursive listing).
+
+ - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
+ modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
+ really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
+ the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
+ times.
+
+ - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
+ from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
+ transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than
+ the default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete).
+
+ - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
+ rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
+ that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
+ filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
+ This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
+ include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
+ versions.
+
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ the socket.
+
+ - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().