Commit 399371e7 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

- Improved the warning about --inplace.

- Fixed the sentence describing how to read standard input with
  --read-batch.
parent d7142e23
......@@ -493,8 +493,11 @@ network reduction it might otherwise.
This option is useful for transfer of large files with block based changes
and also on systems that are disk bound not network bound.
WARNING: If the transfer is interrupted, you will have an inconsistent file
and the transfer should be run again.
WARNING: The file's data will be in an inconsistent state during the
transfer (and possibly afterwards if the transfer gets interrupted), so you
should not use this option to update files that are in use. Also note that
rsync will not update a file inplace that is not writable by the receiving
user.
dit(bf(-l, --links)) When symlinks are encountered, recreate the
symlink on the destination.
......@@ -915,7 +918,7 @@ section for details.
dit(bf(--read-batch=FILE)) Apply all of the changes stored in FILE, a
file previously generated by --write-batch.
If em(FILE) is "-" the list will be read from standard input.
If em(FILE) is "-" the batch data will be read from standard input.
See the "BATCH MODE" section for details.
dit(bf(-4, --ipv4) or bf(-6, --ipv6)) Tells rsync to prefer IPv4/IPv6
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