Improved the examples for the --relative option.

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index c3f0f54..88ae07b 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -466,15 +466,21 @@ just the last parts of the filenames. This is particularly useful when
 you want to send several different directories at the same time. For
 example, if you used the command
 
 you want to send several different directories at the same time. For
 example, if you used the command
 

-verb(rsync foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)

 
 then this would create a file called foo.c in /tmp/ on the remote
 machine. If instead you used
 
 
 then this would create a file called foo.c in /tmp/ on the remote
 machine. If instead you used
 

-verb(rsync -R foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync -R /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)

 
 then a file called /tmp/foo/bar/foo.c would be created on the remote
 
 then a file called /tmp/foo/bar/foo.c would be created on the remote

-machine -- the full path name is preserved.
+machine -- the full path name is preserved.  To limit the amount of
+path information that is sent, do something like this:
+
+verb(cd /foo
+rsync -R bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+
+That would create /tmp/bar/foo.c on the remote machine.

 
 dit(bf(--no-relative)) Turn off the --relative option.  This is only
 needed if you want to use --files-from without its implied --relative
 
 dit(bf(--no-relative)) Turn off the --relative option.  This is only
 needed if you want to use --files-from without its implied --relative