From: David Dykstra Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:39:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Changed man page documentation of --force to say it is hardly ever needed X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/15800c7e89b4b5a51b6fe7cc42e28be6c37bb04f Changed man page documentation of --force to say it is hardly ever needed any more except in very obscure cases. --- diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 1c946dd5..3d3eee5e 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -447,11 +447,10 @@ destination. dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination -contains a directory of the same name. Normally rsync will refuse to -do a recursive directory deletion in such cases, by using --force -the recursive deletion will be done. +contains a directory of the same name. -Use this option with caution! +Since this option was added, deletions were reordered to be done depth-first +so it is hardly ever needed anymore except in very obscure cases. dit(bf(-B , --block_size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details.