NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Protocol: 29 (changed)
Changes since 2.6.3:
+ OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+ - When rsync deletes a directory and outputs a verbose message about
+ 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).
+
BUG FIXES:
- Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
- An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
- mkstemp(). (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+ mkstemp(). (Fix derived from the cygwin's rsync package.)
- Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
the sender, and the file-list is large.
- The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
- - If the OS does not have lchown(), we no longer try to set the user
- & group of a symlink (which would either fail or set the referent).
+ - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+ referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+ user and group of a symlink.
+
+ - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+ rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+ - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR (where DIR is a
+ relative path), the backup code was erroneously trying to backup a
+ file that was put into the partial-dir.
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
+ - Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
+ from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
+ transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than the
+ 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.
+
- Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
that it includes copies of identical files.
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.
+
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
+ rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
+ that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
+ 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ SUPPORT FILES:
+
+ - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+ files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+ once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
+ --link-dest and a parallel hierarchy of files to effect its update.
+
+ - Added support/mnt-excl that takes the /proc/mounts file and
+ translates it into a set of excludes that will exclude all mount
+ points (even mapped mounts to the same disk). The excludes are made
+ relative to the specified source dir and properly anchored.
+
+ - Added support/savetransfer.c -- a C program that can make a copy of
+ all the data that flows over the wire. This lets you test for data
+ corruption (by saving the data on both the sending side and the
+ receiving side) or provides a way to help debug a protocol error.
+
+ - Added support/rrsync -- my version of Joe Smith's restricted rsync
+ perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands
+ can be run by an ssh invocation.
+
+ INTERNAL:
+
+ - Added better checking of the checksum header values that come over
+ the socket.
+
+ - Improved the type of some variables for consistency and proper size.
+
BUILD CHANGES:
- Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().