Commit 183150b7 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Added some more --inplace info (i.e. it implies --partial and conflicts

with 3 basis-file-affecting options).
parent a2570930
......@@ -518,10 +518,17 @@ from the sender.
dit(bf(--inplace)) This causes rsync not to create a new copy of the file
and then move it into place. Instead rsync will overwrite the existing
file, meaning that the rsync algorithm can't extract the full amount of
network reduction it might otherwise.
network reduction it might otherwise (since it does not yet try to sort
data matches -- a future version may improve this).
This option is useful for transfer of large files with block-based change
or appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound not network bound.
This option is useful for transfer of large files with block-based changes
or appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound, not network
bound.
The option implies --partial (since an interrupted transfer does not delete
the file), but conflicts with --partial-dir, --compare-dest, and
--link-dest (a future rsync version will hopefully update the protocol to
remove these restrictions).
WARNING: The file's data will be in an inconsistent state during the
transfer (and possibly afterward if the transfer gets interrupted), so you
......@@ -975,9 +982,9 @@ the file, and the addition of a total-transfer summary in parentheses.
These additional numbers tell you how many files have been updated, and
what percent of the total number of files has been scanned.
dit(bf(-P)) The -P option is equivalent to --partial --progress. I
found myself typing that combination quite often so I created an
option to make it easier.
dit(bf(-P)) The -P option is equivalent to --partial --progress. Its
purpose is to make it much easier to specify these two options for a long
transfer that may be interrupted.
dit(bf(--password-file)) This option allows you to provide a password
in a file for accessing a remote rsync server. Note that this option
......
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment