From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:49:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention that --whole-file interferes with the reuse of a --partial-dir
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Mention that --whole-file interferes with the reuse of a --partial-dir
file.
---

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 694e6d18..f407b5c6 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -907,7 +907,9 @@ put a partially transferred file into DIR instead of writing out the
 file to the destination dir.  Rsync will also use a file found in this
 dir as data to speed up the transfer (i.e. when you redo the send after
 rsync creates a partial file) and delete such a file after it has served
-its purpose.
+its purpose.  Note that if --whole-file is specified (or implied) that an
+existing partial-dir file will not be used to speedup the transfer (since
+rsync is sending files without using the incremental rsync algorithm).
 
 Rsync will create the dir if it is missing (just the last dir -- not the
 whole path).  This makes it easy to use a relative path (such as