X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/45b79c89591f1fe1aafc18dc0dabadba5381c3f5..f65e6a127684da61c429eabafa702c9915474621:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e022ab6..b5633fb2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9) (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also - the --8-bit (-8) option, mentioned below. + the --8-bit-output (-8) option, mentioned below. Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names, so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd @@ -105,11 +105,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1). - - Added the --8-bit (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping high- - bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale. + - 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. @@ -200,6 +201,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - New log-format options: %M (modtime), %U (uid), %G (gid), and %B (permission bits, e.g. "rwxr-xrwt"). + - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose. + - Some minor documentation improvements. - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.