Commit fd0a130c authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the new --delete-delay option.

parent 5e77efaf
......@@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
--delete delete extraneous files from dest dirs
--delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default)
--delete-during receiver deletes during xfer, not before
--delete-delay find deletions during, delete after
--delete-after receiver deletes after transfer, not before
--delete-excluded also delete excluded files from dest dirs
--ignore-errors delete even if there are I/O errors
......@@ -977,6 +978,12 @@ a faster method than choosing the before- or after-transfer algorithm,
but it is only supported beginning with rsync version 2.6.4.
See bf(--delete) (which is implied) for more details on file-deletion.
dit(bf(--delete-delay)) Request that the file-deletions on the receiving
side be computed incrementally as the transfer happens, and then removed
after the transfer completes. A temporary file will be created on the
receiving side to hold the names, but it is removed while open, so you
won't see it during the transfer.
dit(bf(--delete-after)) Request that the file-deletions on the receiving
side be done after the transfer has completed. This is useful if you
are sending new per-directory merge files as a part of the transfer and
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