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81dc5750
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Jan 28, 2002
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David Dykstra
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A more accurate description of --force as I know it.
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@@ -489,11 +489,13 @@ then use the --delete-after switch.
dit(bf(--ignore-errors)) Tells --delete to go ahead and delete files
even when there are IO errors.
dit(bf(--force)) This option tells rsync to delete directories
when non-directories (for example symlinks or plain files) take their
place even if the deleted directories are not empty. This applies to both
the --delete option and to cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file
but the destination contains a directory of the same name.
dit(bf(--force)) This option used to alter the behavior of the --delete
option to force deletion of non-empty directories, but that happens now
anyway because rsync does deletes in depth-first order. The only known
difference that --force makes now is an obscure case where the source is a
non-directory (for example a file or a symlink) but the destination is a
directory that contains a directory by the same name as the source while
--recursive mode is in effect.
dit(bf(-B , --block-size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in
the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details.
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