X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/0752721dc300caeb4d512420140db83699bfc702..37802f40dcbe8956ba8ee3bfbddf10c60f94c209:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31b1f96b..4548af15 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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: @@ -18,8 +19,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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. + - 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. @@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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 @@ -87,7 +92,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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 a single directory of objects at a time. + 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. @@ -108,14 +113,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option. - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from - the patches dir.) Also added "address". + 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. @@ -132,7 +139,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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. + 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 @@ -140,7 +148,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: 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 @@ -153,6 +162,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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 @@ -194,6 +207,45 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - 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().