From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:45:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: List more of the doc improvements, list some of the best diffs in
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/567f1566a9f6628229de8e046e3d451ba7bce5c7

List more of the doc improvements, list some of the best diffs in
the patches dir, and unified the discussion of the "dest" options.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0589f7c8..99ebc708 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       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.
+      --link-dest, or --compare-dest.  Also improved how the verbose output
+      handles hard-links (within the transfer) that had an up-to-date alternate
+      "dest" file, and copied files (via --copy-dest).
 
     - Fixed the matching of the dont-compress items (e.g. *.gz) against files
       that have a path component containing a slash.
@@ -119,13 +121,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
     - 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 transfer.  (See
-      the manpage for a list of the environment variables that are set with
+      the man page for a list of the environment variables that are set with
       information about the transfer.)
 
     - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
@@ -212,10 +211,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
     - The --dry-run option no longer forces the enabling of --verbose.
 
-    - Various documentation improvements, including the documenting of what
-      the various items in the --stats output mean.
+    - Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
+      improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
+      --perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and
+      --chmod options), an extended discussion of --temp-dir, an improved
+      discussion of --partial-dir, a better description of rsync's pattern
+      matching characters, and the documenting of what the various items in
+      the --stats output mean.
 
-    - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+    - Various new and updated diffs in the patches dir, including: acls.diff,
+      xattrs.diff, atimes.diff, detect-renamed.diff, and slp.diff.
 
   INTERNAL: