being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
(Requires protocol 29 for a pull.)
- - The "%o" (operation) value now has a third value besides "send" and
- "recv": "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). This changes
- the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file.
+ - The "%o" (operation) log format now has a third value (besides "send"
+ and "recv"): "del." (with trailing dot to make it 4 chars). This
+ changes the way deletions are logged in the daemon's log file.
BUG FIXES:
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
- - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
+ - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin) needed
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the Cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
+ mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's 2.6.3 rsync package.)
- Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
the sender, and the file-list is large.
- The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter used to erroneously affect
symlinks that pointed to a non-existent file. This has been fixed.
- - 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.
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and a chown() of a symlink will
+ affect 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.
- If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
- if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have
+ if the block-size for a file was large enough (e.g. rsync might have
exited with an error for large files).
+ - Fixed a bug that would sometimes surface when using --compress and
+ sending a file with a block-size larger than 64K (either manually
+ specified, or computed due to the file being really large). Prior
+ versions of rsync would sometimes fail to to decompress the data
+ properly, and thus the transferred file would fail its verification.
+
- If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
being used), die without crashing. We also output an error about
the failure on stderr (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
(since the forked process already has a copy of the exclude list,
there's no need to send them a set of duplicates).
+ - When --progress is specified, the output of items that the generator
+ is creating (e.g. dirs, symlinks) is now integrated into the progress
+ output without overlapping it. (Requires protocol 29.)
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
transfer is being processed. This makes it more efficient than the
default, before-the-transfer behavior, which is now available as
- --delete-before (this is the default --delete-WHEN option that will
- be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without a
- --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so an
- rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
+ --delete-before (that is still the default --delete-WHEN option that
+ will be chosen if --delete or --delete-excluded is specified without
+ a --delete-WHEN choice). All the --del* options infer --delete, so
+ an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" will still refuse to allow any
file-deleting options.
- All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time.
- - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
- that it includes copies of identical files.
-
- - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
- --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
- patches dir and enhanced.)
+ - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest or --link-dest
+ options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the patches dir
+ and enhanced.)
- Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
- The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
so that they can't be mixed together. This makes it impossible to
start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
- cause problems (e.g. a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
+ cause problems when a client connects (e.g. a hang or an abort).
- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
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. (Requires protocol
- 29.)
+ - The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest and
+ --link-dest. (Requires protocol 29.)
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
without recursion.
but may also be specified manually if you want to force the use of
the --list-only option over a remote-shell connection.
- - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
- modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
+ - Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option, which will avoid updating
+ the modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in
an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
- Added the --remove-sent-files option, which lets you move files
between systems.
+ - When building under windows, the default for --daemon is now to
+ avoid detaching, requiring the new --detach option to force rsync
+ to detach.
+
- Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
SUPPORT FILES:
- A 16-bit flag-word is transmitted after every file-list index. This
indicates what is changing between the sender and the receiver. The
generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when
- dirs and symlinks have changed (resorting to the old-style outputting
- of local change-messages for older protocols).
+ dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message),
+ which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and
+ less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the
+ sender is now outputting all the file-change info).
- - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after
- the flag-word indicating what kind of basis file is being used for
- the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines). This information is used
- to optimize the transfer when the basis file is not the destination.
+ - If --inplace is specified, the generator flags any transfer that is
+ using an alternate basis file so that the sender can use the entire
+ file in the rsync algorithm (unlike a normal --inplace update).
- The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
- When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
- is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and
- the new --list-only option is encluded in the options sent over the
- socket.
+ is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire and
+ the new --list-only option is included in the options.
- When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
- - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
- excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the filter
- rules to the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of
- excludes in this situation since there were no receiver-specific
- rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with
- all the filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the
- other side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule
- list is often empty in this scenario.
+ - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter excludes, a
+ client sender will now initiate a send of the filter rules to the
+ receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in
+ this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that
+ survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the
+ filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other
+ side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list
+ is often empty in this scenario.
- A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the