X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/7b759fe0df60d178d2ca13e9e25a1430a5eed528..96b7b48efa86bf3fa164d85532dc8bf520d80531:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 08c67986..c3dfaeac 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: generator now transmits an index and a flag-word to indicate when dirs and symlinks have changed (instead of producing a message), which makes the outputting of the information more consistent and - less prone to screen corruption (because either the receiver or the - sender is now outputting all the file-change info). + less prone to screen corruption (because the local receiver/sender is + now outputting all the file-change info messages). - If a file is being hard-linked, the appropriate bit is enabled in the flag-word and the name of the file that was linked immediately @@ -349,18 +349,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: build the file-list, and one for how long it took to send it over the wire (each expressed in thousandths of a second). - - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter excludes, a - client sender will now initiate a send of the filter rules to the - receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in + - When --delete-excluded is specified with some filter rules (AKA + excludes), a client sender will now initiate a send of the rules to + the receiver (older protocols used to omit the sending of excludes in this situation since there were no receiver-specific rules that survived --delete-excluded back then). Note that, as with all the filter-list sending, only items that are significant to the other side will actually be sent over the wire, so the filter-rule list - is often empty in this scenario. - - - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs - option. Also, the shell script created by --write-batch will use the - --filter option instead of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. + that is sent in this scenario is often empty. - An index equal to the file-list count is sent as a keep-alive packet from the generator to the sender, which then forwards it on to the @@ -368,6 +364,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: packet if the 16-bit flag-word that follows it contains a single bit (ITEM_IS_NEW, which is normally an illegal flag to appear alone). + - A protocol-29 batch file includes a bit for the setting of the --dirs + option and for the setting of the --compress option. Also, the shell + script created by --write-batch will use the --filter option instead + of --exclude-from to capture any filter rules. + BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().