X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/515afe7cf16b8b34d3ff98bed545c26c10f42415..4e7d07c8d4c75f0fc4207f0d6058db99b61c2f17:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e2e12cc0..58163016 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files that have a path component containing a slash. + - If code reading a filter/exclude file an EINTR error, rsync now clears + the error flag on the file handle so it can keep on reading. + + - If --relative is active, the sending side cleans up trailing "/" or "/." + suffixes to avoid triggering a bug in older rsync versions. Also, we now + reject a ".." dir if it would be sent as a relative dir. + + - If a non-directory is in the way of a directory and rsync is run with + --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being + able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files @@ -96,13 +107,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized. - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and - without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure + without --delete-excluded), we add a "protect" filter-rule to ensure that files with the backup suffix are not deleted. - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to better indicate what the numbers mean. For instance, the output: - "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred - file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total. + "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was the fifth file + to be transferred, and we still need to check 8383 more files out of + a total of 9999. + + - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 + trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the + content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). + + - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes + unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without + all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, + the client must be version 2.6.7 for this to work, but the remote + rsync only needs to be 2.6.7 if you're pushing files. - Some minor documentation improvements. @@ -122,6 +144,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes. + - The wildmatch function was extended to allow an array of strings to + be supplied as the string to match. This allows the exclude code to + do less string copying. + + - Got rid of the safe_fname() function (and all the myriad calls) and + replaced it with a new function in the log.c code that filters all + the output going to the terminal. + + - Unified the f_name() and the f_name_to() functions. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO