The branch, master has been updated
via 8030518 Clarify incremental recursion's effect on --hard-link.
via e630fd1 Some --inplace manpage enhancements.
from d3f5c62 Avoid directory permission issues with --fake-super. Fixes
bug 7070.
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commit 8030518dd019a66fb2d6c2e7c9d0de32e3130fe6
Author: Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org>
Date: Sat Jan 1 18:20:09 2011 -0800
Clarify incremental recursion's effect on --hard-link.
commit e630fd11869ca2824154ee585ab77059b91ca0ac
Author: Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org>
Date: Sat Jan 1 18:16:49 2011 -0800
Some --inplace manpage enhancements.
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Summary of changes:
rsync.yo | 12 +++++++++---
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 0ad14f3..456bd4f 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -781,7 +781,9 @@ quote(itemization(
it() The file's data will be in an inconsistent state during the transfer
and will be left that way if the transfer is interrupted or if an update
fails.
- it() A file that does not have write permissions cannot be updated.
+ it() A file that rsync cannot write to cannot be updated. While a super user
+ can update any file, a normal user needs to be granted write permission for
+ the open of the file for writing to be successful.
it() The efficiency of rsync's delta-transfer algorithm may be reduced if
some data in the destination file is overwritten before it can be copied to
a position later in the file. This does not apply if you use bf(--backup),
@@ -794,7 +796,8 @@ accessed by others, so be careful when choosing to use this
for a copy.
This option is useful for transferring large files with block-based changes
or appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound, not network
-bound.
+bound. It can also help keep a copy-on-write filesystem snapshot from
+diverging the entire contents of a file that only has minor changes.
The option implies bf(--partial) (since an interrupted transfer does not delete
the file), but conflicts with bf(--partial-dir) and bf(--delay-updates).
@@ -960,7 +963,10 @@ see the bf(--inplace) option for more caveats).
If incremental recursion is active (see bf(--recursive)), rsync may transfer
a missing hard-linked file before it finds that another link for that contents
exists elsewhere in the hierarchy. This does not affect the accuracy of
-the transfer, just its efficiency. One way to avoid this is to disable
+the transfer (i.e. which files are hard-linked together), just its efficiency
+(i.e. copying the data for a new, early copy of a hard-linked file that could
+have been found later in the transfer in another member of the hard-linked
+set of files). One way to avoid this inefficiency is to disable
incremental recursion using the bf(--no-inc-recursive) option.
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes the receiving rsync to set the
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