X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/1874f7e2e176dc7a3c2f05687a28bcbfe5964b06..043ef55b227146d2482859c66573b3229042ee75:/rsync.yo diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index aa9ccc8b..50c2489c 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST] manpagedescription() -rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, +Rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file is being updated. @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ differences between two sets of files across the network connection, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package. -It finds files that need to be transferred using a "quick check" algorithm +Rsync finds files that need to be transferred using a "quick check" algorithm that looks for files that have changed in size or in last-modified time (by default). Any changes in the other preserved attributes (as requested by options) are made on the destination file directly when the quick check