Updated the long description for the --perms option.

8dc74608 · Wayne Davison · 3e85237e · 8dc74608
Commit 8dc74608 authored May 16, 2003 by Wayne Davison
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 dit(bf(--no-whole-file)) Turn off --whole-file, for use when it is the
 default.

-dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to update the remote
-permissions to be the same as the local permissions.
+dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to set the destination
+permissions to be the same as the source permissions.
+
+Without this option, each new file gets its permissions set based on the
+source file's permissions and the umask at the receiving end, while all
+other files (including updated files) retain their existing permissions
+(which is the same behavior as other file-copy utilities, such as cp).

 dit(bf(-o, --owner)) This option causes rsync to set the owner of the
 destination file to be the same as the source file.  On most systems,