X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/4f90eb433afec76a8af242496df8082cd24f722e..d4021b6d9b9a644a539746c98fe24f61d95e8ea5:/rsync.yo diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 45515814..0f2edcee 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb( --rsync-path=PATH specify path to rsync on the remote machine --existing only update files that already exist --ignore-existing ignore files that already exist on receiver + --remove-sent-files sent files/symlinks are removed from sender --del an alias for --delete-during --delete delete files that don't exist on sender --delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default) @@ -462,7 +463,7 @@ receiver are not transferred. This option can be quite slow. dit(bf(-a, --archive)) This is equivalent to bf(-rlptgoD). It is a quick way of saying you want recursion and want to preserve almost everything. The only exception to this is if bf(--files-from) was -specified, in which case bf(-d) is implied instead of bf(-r). +specified, in which case bf(-r) is not implied. Note that bf(-a) bf(does not preserve hardlinks), because finding multiply-linked files is expensive. You must separately @@ -674,6 +675,11 @@ dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync not to update files that already exist on the destination. +dit(bf(--remove-sent-files)) This tells rsync to remove from the sending +side the files and/or symlinks that are newly created or whose content is +updated on the receiving side. Directories and devices are not removed, +nor are files/symlinks whose attributes are merely changed. + dit(bf(--delete)) This tells rsync to delete extraneous files from the receiving side (ones that aren't on the sending side), but only for the directories that are being synchronized. You must have asked rsync to