From 58a06312a4891ed375614d60ba92ce2a54d68a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:41:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved the doc for --existing and --ignore-existing. --- rsync.yo | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 17f3c9fe..aa2548e8 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -905,14 +905,14 @@ treated like a mount-point. Symlinks to non-directories are unaffected by this option. dit(bf(--existing, --ignore-non-existing)) This tells rsync to skip -creating files (i.e. non-directory items) that do not exist yet on the -destination. If this option is +creating files (including directories) that do not exist +yet on the destination. If this option is combined with the bf(--ignore-existing) option, no files will be updated -(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete missing files). +(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete extraneous files). -dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files (i.e. -non-directory items) that -already exist on the destination. See also bf(--existing). +dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files that +already exist on the destination (this does em(not) ignore existing +directores, or nothing would get done). See also bf(--existing). dit(bf(--remove-sent-files)) This tells rsync to remove from the sending side the files and/or symlinks that are newly created or whose content is -- 2.34.1