X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/a6a276027c059e8dbf104f3472de3ab533f92941..2857451ca2b89fd6641c25f2390f26cf360d2a6c:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c6f2eb01..59cf530d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: OUTPUT CHANGES: - The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of - clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. The number of - characters is also different (to remove an unused field). + clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed. First, rsync now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in @@ -108,8 +107,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - 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 +200,8 @@ 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.