Add --link-dest option from J.W. Schultz.

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 6751ea2..21d6962 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ verb(
      --modify-window=NUM     Timestamp window (seconds) for file match (default=0)
  -T  --temp-dir=DIR          create temporary files in directory DIR
      --compare-dest=DIR      also compare destination files relative to DIR
+     --link-dest=DIR         create hardlinks to DIR for unchanged files
  -P                          equivalent to --partial --progress
  -z, --compress              compress file data
      --exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
@@ -617,6 +618,8 @@ dit(bf(--exclude-from=FILE)) This option is similar to the --exclude
 option, but instead it adds all exclude patterns listed in the file
 FILE to the exclude list.  Blank lines in FILE and lines starting with
 ';' or '#' are ignored.
+If em(FILE) is bf(-) the list will be read from standard input.
+
 
 dit(bf(--include=PATTERN)) This option tells rsync to not exclude the
 specified pattern of filenames. This is useful as it allows you to
@@ -627,6 +630,8 @@ this option.
 
 dit(bf(--include-from=FILE)) This specifies a list of include patterns
 from a file.
+If em(FILE) is bf(-) the list will be read from standard input.
+
 
 dit(bf(-C, --cvs-exclude)) This is a useful shorthand for excluding a
 broad range of files that you often don't want to transfer between
@@ -682,6 +687,11 @@ files that haven't changed).  This option increases the usefulness of
 temporary destination until they have a chance to be completed.  If DIR is
 a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.
 
+dit(bf(--link-dest=DIR)) This option behaves like bf(--compare-dest) but
+also will create hard links from em(DIR) to the destination directory for
+unchanged files.  Files with changed ownership or permissions will not be
+linked.
+
 dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from
 the files that it sends to the destination machine.  This
 option is useful on slow links.  The compression method used is the