Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
Changes since 2.6.6:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of
+ clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of
+ characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
+
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
- Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
+ - If the sender gets an early EOF reading a source file, we propagate this
+ error to the receiver so that it can discard the file and try requesting
+ it again (which is the existing behavior for other kinds of read errors).
+
- If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
permissions without recreating the file.
- Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
--link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+ - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
+ that have a path component containing a slash.
+
+ - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears
+ the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading.
+
+ - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/."
+ suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now
+ reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir.
+
+ - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with
+ --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able
+ to opendir() the not-yet present directory.
+
+ - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with
+ --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during).
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
- that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
- files).
+ - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does
+ not require root). The --devices option now affects just character and
+ block devices (which now matches the documentation). The -D option still
+ requests both --devices and --specials, and -a still implies -D.
+
+ - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files that
+ are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new files).
- Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
transfer.
- Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
- - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
- to 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).
+ - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size to
+ 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.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
preservation of attributes on symlinks.
- - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
- possible).
+ - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when possible).
- Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
--link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
- - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec"
- and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a
- per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
- transfer. (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
- that are set with information about the transfer.)
+ - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" and
+ "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a per-module
+ basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode transfer. (See
+ the manpage for a list of the environment variables that are set with
+ information about the transfer.)
- When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
- - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
- unwanted implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
- "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
- file ownership that is implied by -a.
+ - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override unwanted
+ implied or default options. For example, "-a --no-o" (aka "--archive
+ --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of file ownership
+ that is implied by -a.
+
+ - 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 --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" 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.
+ - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which
+ sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
- - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
- now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+ - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will now
+ delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+
+ - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and without
+ --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files
+ with the backup suffix are not deleted.
- The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output:
- "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
- file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
+ "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file
+ to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of
+ a total of 9999.
+
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
+ stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
+ dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+
+ - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
+ discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
+ easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
+ just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.
+
+ - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes
+ unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all
+ the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, the
+ client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote rsync only
+ needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files.
+
+ - Added the --super option to make the receiver always attempt super- user
+ activities. This is useful for systems that allow things such as devices
+ to be created or ownership to be set without being UID 0, and is also
+ useful for someone who wants to ensure that errors will be output if the
+ receiving rsync isn't being run as root.
+
+ - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP
+ options used to contact a daemon rsync.
+
+ - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir
+ setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when
+ --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight).
- Some minor documentation improvements.
- Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+ - 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.
+
INTERNAL:
- Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+ - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to be
+ supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to do less
+ string copying.
+
+ - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and
+ replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all the
+ output going to the terminal.
+
+ - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions.
+
DEVELOPER RELATED:
- Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
the newly patched feature.
+ - The testsuite now sets HOME so that it won't be affecting by a file
+ such as ~/.popt.
Matt McCutchen's Web Site / rsync / rsync.git / blobdiff