X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/da2d13e3cec2f79362ab94429cc291d3c9653a70..2067ec73421b16633fcffa283e469022bef550b6:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f01fb0c..e8e1dff9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle the exit status properly and generate a better error. + - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest, + --link-dest, or --compare-dest. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files @@ -56,6 +59,12 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the preservation of attributes on symlinks. + - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when + possible). + + - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using + --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest. + - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing: "pre-xfer exec" and "post-xfer exec". These allow a command to be specified on a per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode @@ -83,6 +92,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will 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 + 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