Commit d82434cf authored by David Dykstra's avatar David Dykstra

Clarify the --force entry in the rsync man page.

parent cd6058f3
......@@ -489,13 +489,11 @@ 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 options tells rsync to delete directories even if
they 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.
Since this option was added, deletions were reordered to be done depth-first
so it is hardly ever needed anymore except in very obscure cases.
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(-B , --block-size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in
the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details.
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