Mention rsync's definition of client and server.

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 79cbf07..1daff0c 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ destination, the files are listed in an output format similar to "ls -l".
 As expected, if neither the source or destination path specify a remote
 host, the copy occurs locally (see also the bf(--list-only) option).
 
+Rsync refers to the local side as the "client" and the remote side as the
+"server".  Don't confuse "server" with an rsync daemon -- a daemon is always a
+server, but a server can be either a daemon or a remote-shell spawned process.
+
 manpagesection(SETUP)
 
 See the file README for installation instructions.
@@ -2401,7 +2405,7 @@ itemization(
   it() rsync chooses between doing a simple string match and wildcard
   matching by checking if the pattern contains one of these three wildcard
   characters: '*', '?', and '[' .
-  it() a '*' matches any non-empty path component (it stops at slashes).
+  it() a '*' matches any path component, but it stops at slashes.
   it() use '**' to match anything, including slashes.
   it() a '?' matches any character except a slash (/).
   it() a '[' introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]].