it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only
sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string.
- - The --stats output will contain time file-list time statistics if
- both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files
- are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
+ - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both
+ sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are
+ being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side).
+ (Requires protocol 29.)
BUG FIXES:
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
file).
+ - The combination of --verbose and --dry-run now mentions changes in
+ directories and it now includes the full update information that
+ would be output without --dry-run at higher levels of verbosity.
+
- Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
that already exists in the --backup-dir.
relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
file that was put into the partial-dir.
+ - One call to flush_write_file() was not being checked for an error.
+
+ - The --no-relative option was not being sent from the client to a
+ server sender.
+
+ - If an rsync daemon specified "dont compress = ..." for a file and the
+ client tried to specify --compress, the libz code was not handling a
+ compression level of 0 properly. This could cause a transfer failure
+ if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have
+ exited with an error for large files).
+
+ - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not
+ being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error
+ about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was
+ specified).
+
+ - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options
+ by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has.
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the
--del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so
an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake,
- really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options.
+ really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The
+ default --delete behavior is also explicitly selectable via
+ --delete-before.
+
+ - All the --delete-WHEN options are now more memory efficient:
+ Previously an entire duplicate set of file-list objects was created
+ on the receiving side for the entire destination hierarchy. The new
+ algorithm only creates one directory of objects at a time.
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
that it includes copies of identical files.
cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
- The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
- to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
+ to specify both a default value for the daemon side and a value
that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
- Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
- the patches dir.)
+ the patches dir.) Also added "address". A command-line option
+ will take precedence over a config-file option, as expected.
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
partial file.
- The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
- --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
+ --link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options. (Requires protocol
+ 29.)
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
without recursion.
- Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
put the server into listing mode without needing to resort to any
option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
- non-recursive listing).
+ non-recursive listing). This option is used automatically when a
+ modern rsync speaks to a modern daemon, but may also be specified
+ manually if you want to force the use of the --list-only option over
+ a remote-shell connection.
- Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
- modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
- really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
- the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
- times.
+ modified time for directories when --times was specified. This
+ option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of
+ the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in
+ an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from
+ the patches dir.)
- Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
- versions.
+ versions. (Protocol 29 needed for full filter-rule support, but
+ backward-compatible rules work with earlier protocol versions.)
- Added the --delay-updates option that puts all updated files into
a temporary directory (by default ".~tmp~", but settable via the
--partial-dir=DIR option) until the end of the transfer. This
makes the updates a little more atomic for a large transfer.
+ - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is
+ reduced.
+
+ - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This
+ setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.)
+
+ - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index
+ they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since
+ that would indicate that something had gone very wrong).
+
SUPPORT FILES:
- Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
can be run by an ssh invocation.
+ - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text.
+
INTERNAL:
- - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over
the socket.
- - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+ - Merged the various delete-file functions into a single function so
+ that it is easier to maintain.
+
+ - Improved the type of some variables (particularly blocksize vars) for
+ consistency and proper size.
+
+ - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need).
+
+ - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives.
+
+ - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't
+ find a variable with at least 32 bits.
+
+ PROTOCOL DIFFERENCES FOR VERSION 29:
+
+ - If --inplace is specified, the generator sends an extra byte after
+ each index integer indicating what kind of basis file is being used
+ for the transfer (see the FNAMECMP_* defines).
+
+ - The sending of exclude names is done using filter-rule syntax. This
+ means that all names have a prefixed rule indicator, even excludes
+ (which used to be sent as a bare pattern, when possible). The -C
+ option will include the per-dir .cvsignore merge file in the list of
+ filter rules so it is positioned correctly (unlike in some older
+ transfer scenarios).
+
+ - Rsync sorts the filename list in a different way: it sorts the
+ subdir names after the non-subdir names for each dir's contents, and
+ it always puts a dir's contents immediately after the dir's name in
+ the list. (Previously an item named "foo.txt" would sort in between
+ directory "foo/" and "foo/bar".)
+
+ - When talking to a protocol 29 rsync daemon, a list-only request
+ is able to note this before the options are sent over the wire, and
+ the new --list-only option is enabled.
+
+ - When the --stats bytes are sent over the wire (or stored in a batch),
+ they now include two elapsed-time values: one for how long it took to
+ build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the
+ wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second).
+
+ - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA
+ excludes), a client sender will still initiate a send of the filter
+ rules to the receiver, but it only includes those rules that are
+ receiver-specific. Older protocols used to omit the sending of
+ excludes in this situation (since there were no receiver-specific
+ rules that survived --delete-excluded back then).
+
+ - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs
+ option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the
+ --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules.
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+
+ - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
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