- Added the --skip-compress=LIST option to override of the default list of
file suffixes that will not be compressed when using --compress.
- - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
- side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an
- older rsync with this option, but pushing to an older rsync will generate
- an error. *Be sure to never specify a 0 value to an older rsync client,
- or it will be silently ignored.*
+ - The --max-delete option now outputs a warning if it skipped any file
+ deletions, including a count of how many deletions were skipped. (Older
+ versions just silently stopped deleting things.)
+
+ - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client to request that it warn
+ about any files that it wants to delete without deleting anything. If
+ you're not sure what version the client is, you can use the less-obvious
+ --max-delete=-1, as old and new versions will both treat that as the
+ same request (though older versions don't warn).
- The --hard-link option now uses less memory on both the sending and
receiving side for all protocol versions. For protocol 30, the use of a
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