Commit 4539c0d7 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Improved the description of the --update option.

parent c3131af9
......@@ -509,11 +509,13 @@ dit(bf(--suffix=SUFFIX)) This option allows you to override the default
backup suffix used with the --backup (-b) option. The default suffix is a ~
if no --backup-dir was specified, otherwise it is an empty string.
dit(bf(-u, --update)) This forces rsync to skip any files for which the
destination file already exists and has a date later than the source
file.
dit(bf(-u, --update)) This forces rsync to skip any files which exist on
the destination and have a modified time that is newer than the source
file. (If an existing destination file has a modify time equal to the
source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.)
In the currently implementation, a difference of file format is always
In the current implementation of --update, a difference of file format
between the sender and receiver is always
considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what date
is on the objects. In other words, if the source has a directory or a
symlink where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur
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