Commit 9624b864 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Mention the latest new options.

parent 201a2fe5
......@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3:
- The --inplace support was enhanced to work with --compare-dest,
--link-dest, and (the new) --copy-dest options.
- Added the --dirs option for an easier way to copy directories
- Added the --dirs (-d) option for an easier way to copy directories
without recursion.
- Added the --list-only option which is mainly a way for the client to
......@@ -86,12 +86,25 @@ Changes since 2.6.3:
option kluges (e.g. the age-old use of "-r --exclude="/*/*" for a
non-recursive listing).
- Added the --omit-dir-times option which will avoid updating the
- Added the --omit-dir-times (-O) option which will avoid updating the
modified time for directories when --times was specified. For a
really large transfer, this option will avoid an extra pass through
the file-list at the end of the transfer to tweak all the directory
times.
- Added the --delete-during (--del) option which will delete files
from on the receiving side incrementally as each directory in the
transfer is being processed (which makes it more efficient than
the default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete).
- Added the --filter (-f) option and its helper option, -F. Filter
rules are an extension to the existing include/exclude handling
that also supports nested filter files as well as per-directory
filter files (like .cvsignore, but with full filter-rule parsing).
This new option was chosen in order to ensure that all existing
include/exclude processing remained 100% compatible with older
versions.
- Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
once at the end of the transfer. Only works when pulling, and uses
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