- - 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 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 --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving
- rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This
- makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include,
- exclude, filter rules, and only end up with 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.
-
- - Some minor documentation improvements.
-
- - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
- MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
-
- - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
- with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
-
- - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
- the VA_COPY macro.
-
- - 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.