From 63344ad4e12c82f98a8aafcc984ecdfd3b09229a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:19:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the latest improvements. --- NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f0f2aa53..81339ae6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: --dry-run and --delete, rsync no longer complains about not being able to opendir() the not-yet present directory. + - Got rid of the need for --force to be used in some circumstances with + --delete-after (making it consistent with --delete-before/-during). + ENHANCEMENTS: - Added the --specials option to tell rsync to copy special files (and does @@ -111,6 +114,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions to be changed from the source permissions. E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx + - Added the "incoming chmod" daemon option to allow a module to specify + what permissions changes should be applied to all files copied to the + daemon. + - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon, which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files. @@ -131,11 +138,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir). - - Added the --skip-empty-dirs (-k) option that makes the receiving + - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This - makes it much easier to scan a source hierarchy using include, - exclude, filter rules, and only end up with the directories needed - to hold the resulting files. + makes it easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and + end up with just the directories needed to hold the resulting files. - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without @@ -152,6 +158,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6: - Added the --sockopts option for those few who want to customize the TCP options used to contact a daemon rsync. + - Added a way for the --temp-dir option to be combined with a partial-dir + setting that lets rsync avoid non-atomic updates (for those times when + --temp-dir is not being used because space is tight). + - Some minor documentation improvements. - Updated some diffs in the patches dir. -- 2.34.1