From a324d49bfc85cffe74786df66d5f85f8034640f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:20:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the --skip-empty-dirs option. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dceffc47..f0f2aa53 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ 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 + 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. + - If the --itemize-changes (-i) option is repeated, rsync now includes unchanged files in the itemized output (similar to -vv, but without all the other verbose messages that can get in the way). Of course, -- 2.34.1