From 0b79c324ca32a08a82cad88e91729071a7342937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:46:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved the "relative to the destination dir" description for several options. --- rsync.yo | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 1e2f2c71..d4c70c27 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ very useful for incremental backups. You can additionally specify a backup suffix using the --suffix option (otherwise the files backed up in the specified directory will keep their original filenames). +If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory +(which changes in a recursive transfer). dit(bf(--suffix=SUFFIX)) This option allows you to override the default backup suffix used with the --backup (-b) option. The default suffix is a ~ @@ -727,14 +729,14 @@ although this skips files that haven't changed; see also --link-dest). This option increases the usefulness of --partial because partially transferred files will remain in the new temporary destination until they have a chance to be completed. If DIR is a relative path, it is relative -to the destination directory. +to the destination directory (which changes in a recursive transfer). dit(bf(--link-dest=DIR)) This option behaves like bf(--compare-dest) but also will create hard links from em(DIR) to the destination directory for unchanged files. Files with changed ownership or permissions will not be linked. Like bf(--compare-dest) if DIR is a relative path, it is relative -to the destination directory. +to the destination directory (which changes in a recursive transfer). dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from the files that it sends to the destination machine. This -- 2.34.1