From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:38:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention a couple more changes. X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/7b82b5adb3b53aef3c0c22b404e3989fc5a6f924 Mention a couple more changes. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 31b1f96b..f4765d5f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was specified). + - A local transfer no longer duplicates all its include/exclude options + by sending the forked process a copy of the list it already has. + ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can @@ -132,7 +135,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: modified time for directories when --times was specified. This option will avoid an extra pass through the file-list at the end of the transfer (to tweak all the directory times), which can result in - an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. + an appreciable speedup for a really large transfer. (Promoted from + the patches dir.) - Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling @@ -153,6 +157,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) + - The sender and the generator now double-check the file-list index + they are given, and refuse to operate on a directory index (since + that would indicate that something had gone very wrong). + SUPPORT FILES: - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some