Commit 15800c7e authored by David Dykstra's avatar David Dykstra

Changed man page documentation of --force to say it is hardly ever needed

any more except in very obscure cases.
parent b5313607
......@@ -447,11 +447,10 @@ destination.
dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if
they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to
cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination
contains a directory of the same name. Normally rsync will refuse to
do a recursive directory deletion in such cases, by using --force
the recursive deletion will be done.
contains a directory of the same name.
Use this option with caution!
Since this option was added, deletions were reordered to be done depth-first
so it is hardly ever needed anymore except in very obscure cases.
dit(bf(-B , --block_size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in
the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details.
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