- * Call setgroups() in a more portable manner.
-
- * Improved file-related error messages to better indicate exactly
- what pathname failed. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed some bugs in the handling of --delete and --exclude when
- using the --relative (-R) option. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Fixed bug that prevented regular files from replacing
- special files and caused a directory in --link-dest or
- --compare-dest to block the creation of a file with the
- same path. A directory still cannot be replaced by a
- regular file unless --delete specified. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- INTERNAL:
-
- * Eliminated vestigial support for old versions that we stopped
- supporting. (J.W. Schultz)
-
- * Simplified some of the option-parsing code. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Some cleanup made to the exclude code, as well as some new
- defines added to enhance readability. (Wayne Davison)
-
- * Changed the protocol-version code so that it can interact at a
- lower protocol level than the maximum supported by both sides.
- Added an undocumented option, --protocol=N, to force the value
- we advertise to the other side (primarily for testing purposes).
- (Wayne Davison)
-
-
-NEWS for rsync version 2.5.6, aka the dwd-between-jobs release
-Protocol: 26 (unchanged)
-Changes since version 2.5.5:
+ - 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.