Commit 7b10f91d authored by Andrew Tridgell's avatar Andrew Tridgell

added a note about using -v with --progress

parent 3d19b4c8
......@@ -447,15 +447,6 @@ This option can be dangerous if used incorrectly! It is a very good idea
to run first using the dry run option (-n) to see what files would be
deleted to make sure important files aren't listed.
rsync 1.6.4 changed the behavior of --delete to make it less
dangerous. rsync now only scans directories on the receiving side
that are explicitly transferred from the sending side. Only files in
these directories are deleted.
Still, it is probably easy to get burnt with this option. The moral
of the story is to use the -n option until you get used to the
behavior of --delete.
If the sending side detects any IO errors then the deletion of any
files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is to
prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the
......@@ -621,6 +612,9 @@ dit(bf(--progress)) This option tells rsync to print information
showing the progress of the transfer. This gives a bored user
something to watch.
This option is normally combined with -v. Using this option without
the -v option will produce weird results on your display.
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
is only useful when accessing a rsync server using the built in
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