X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/20a026978297da6779275772ebdf7767cf48cbd4..2857451ca2b89fd6641c25f2390f26cf360d2a6c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 52b6a124..59cf530d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: OUTPUT CHANGES: - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of - clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of - characters is also different (to remove an unused field). + clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in @@ -108,8 +107,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Added the --8-bit-output (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping high-bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale. - - The new options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the - --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. + - The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of --progress, + --stats, and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read. If repeated, + the units become powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks.