Commit 505ada14 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Mention that --delete now works with --dirs.

parent 75c51953
......@@ -733,7 +733,9 @@ also excluded from being deleted unless you use the bf(--delete-excluded)
option or mark the rules as only matching on the sending side (see the
include/exclude modifiers in the FILTER RULES section).
This option has no effect unless directory recursion is enabled.
Prior to rsync 2.6.7, this option would have no effect unless bf(--recursive)
was in effect. Beginning with 2.6.7, deletions will also occur when bf(--dirs)
is specified, but only for directories whose contents are being copied.
This option can be dangerous if used incorrectly! It is a very good idea
to run first using the bf(--dry-run) option (bf(-n)) to see what files would be
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