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).
BUG FIXES:
was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
file).
+ - The --dry-run option (-n) now mentions changes in directories (w/-v).
+ It also now includes the normal uptodate output information for -vv.
+
- 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).
+
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
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".
- In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
- 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.
- Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
--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.
+
SUPPORT FILES:
- Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
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).
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+
+ - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.