Improved the examples for the --relative option.

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 39aad65..88ae07b 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -466,15 +466,21 @@ just the last parts of the filenames. This is particularly useful when
 you want to send several different directories at the same time. For
 example, if you used the command
 
-verb(rsync foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
 
 then this would create a file called foo.c in /tmp/ on the remote
 machine. If instead you used
 
-verb(rsync -R foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync -R /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
 
 then a file called /tmp/foo/bar/foo.c would be created on the remote
-machine -- the full path name is preserved.
+machine -- the full path name is preserved.  To limit the amount of
+path information that is sent, do something like this:
+
+verb(cd /foo
+rsync -R bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+
+That would create /tmp/bar/foo.c on the remote machine.
 
 dit(bf(--no-relative)) Turn off the --relative option.  This is only
 needed if you want to use --files-from without its implied --relative
@@ -509,11 +515,13 @@ dit(bf(--suffix=SUFFIX)) This option allows you to override the default
 backup suffix used with the --backup (-b) option. The default suffix is a ~
 if no --backup-dir was specified, otherwise it is an empty string.
 
-dit(bf(-u, --update)) This forces rsync to skip any files for which the
-destination file already exists and has a date later than the source
-file.
+dit(bf(-u, --update)) This forces rsync to skip any files which exist on
+the destination and have a modified time that is newer than the source
+file.  (If an existing destination file has a modify time equal to the
+source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.)
 
-In the currently implementation, a difference of file format is always
+In the current implementation of --update, a difference of file format
+between the sender and receiver is always
 considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what date
 is on the objects.  In other words, if the source has a directory or a
 symlink where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur