From 9b3150bd2e386cb0928c268904a5b80eeffeeb50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:45:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the change in error message and exit status when we pull an empty file list. --- NEWS | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0246b92f..c18a7d8e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,8 +8,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash is now output as "\\". Rsync also uses your locale setting, which - should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable, as - appropriate. + should make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable (when + appropriate). + + - If rsync received an empty file list when pulling files, it would + output an "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit + status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do + this under the same conditions when pushing files). This was changed + to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior -- we + now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and + exit with the appropriate exit status. BUG FIXES: -- 2.34.1