Commit baf3e504 authored by David Dykstra's avatar David Dykstra

Change documentation to explain that a lack of -t in effect causes -I to be

assumed on the next transfer.
parent b389939f
......@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ void sig_int(void)
and ownership */
void finish_transfer(char *fname, char *fnametmp, struct file_struct *file)
{
rprintf(FINFO,"finish_transfer(%s,%s)\n",fname,fnametmp);
if (make_backups) {
char fnamebak[MAXPATHLEN];
if (strlen(fname) + strlen(backup_suffix) > (MAXPATHLEN-1)) {
......
......@@ -370,7 +370,12 @@ block device information to the remote system to recreate these
devices. This option is only available to the super-user.
dit(bf(-t, --times)) This tells rsync to transfer modification times along
with the files and update them on the remote system
with the files and update them on the remote system. Note that if this
option is not used, the optimization that excludes files that have not been
modified cannot be effective; in other words, a missing -t or -a will
cause the next transfer to behave as if it used -I, and all files will have
their checksums compared and show up in log messages even if they haven't
changed.
dit(bf(-n, --dry-run)) This tells rsync to not do any file transfers,
instead it will just report the actions it would have taken.
......@@ -505,10 +510,12 @@ additional directory to compare destination files against when doing
transfers. This is useful for doing transfers to a new destination while
leaving existing files intact, and then doing a flash-cutover when all
files have been successfully transfered (for example by moving directories
around and removing the old directory). This option increases the
usefulness of --partial because partially transferred files will remain in
the new temporary destination until they have a chance to be completed.
If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory.
around and removing the old directory, although this requires also doing
the transfer with -I to avoid skipping files that haven't changed). This
option increases the usefulness of --partial because partially transferred
files will remain in the new temporary destination until they have a chance
to be completed. If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the
destination directory.
dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from
the source file(s) which it sends to the destination machine. This
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