X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/442743b83c2a8a959c37be8e89b320f744074e7c..b0a93231cf0201553760b5777b6875e774735e6c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c53bc561..a4e7a1d2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: "USER:PASS@" prefix before the "HOST:PORT" information. (Bardur Arantsson) + * The --progress output now mentions how far along in the + transfer we are, including both a count of files transferred + and a percentage of the total file-count that we're processed. + BUG FIXES: * The --link-dest code now works properly for a non-root user @@ -36,6 +40,18 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: * Fixed "make test" bug when build dir is not the source dir. + * When using --cvs-exclude, the exclude items we get from a + directory's .cvsignore file once again only affect that one + directory (and not all following directories too). + + * When transferring a file that has group 0 with -g specified + (typically via -a) and not enough privs to retain the group, + rsync no longer complains about chown failing. + + * When specifying the USER@HOST: prefix for a file, the USER + part can now contain an '@', if needed (i.e. the last '@' + is used to find the HOST, not the first). + INTERNAL: * Most of the I/O is now buffered, which results in a pretty @@ -66,11 +82,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.0: * Less memory used per-file in the file list. * The 2 pipes used between the receiver and generator processes - (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe and - the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to have the - "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing messages from - the receiver don't get lost on their way to through generator over - to the sender. (Wayne Davison) + (which are forked on the same machine) were reduced to 1 pipe + and the protocol improved so that (1) it is now impossible to + have the "redo" pipe fill up and hang rsync, and (2) trailing + messages from the receiver don't get lost on their way through + the generator over to the sender (the latter mainly affected + hard-link messages). (Wayne Davison) + + * The reading & writing of the file list in batch-mode is now + handled by the same code that sends & receives the list over + the wire. This makes it much easier to maintain. NEWS for rsync 2.6.0 (1 Jan 2004)