Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please
give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any
questions, comments, bug reports, etc.
You can read all about the latest improvements and bug-fixes in the NEWS
file:
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.7pre1-NEWS
For the tar file itself, you'll find it here (with its signature):
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.7pre1.tar.gz
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.7pre1.tar.gz.asc
Links to the latest HTML manpages and the patch file are on the rsync
home page.
Thanks for helping out!
..wayne..
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[quoted lines by Wayne Davison on 2006/02/08 at 21:07 -0800]>You can read all about the latest improvements and bug-fixes in the NEWS >file: > > http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/preview/rsync-2.6.7pre1-NEWS>The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of clumping them >together with the 'D' for devices.Is this a Windows thing? On Unix-like systems, unless I'm misunderstanding something, there's no such thing as a device file, i.e. a device is either character special or block special.>The new option --human-readable (-h) changes the output of ...I thought -h was the short option for --help. Wouldn't it be better to leave it that way, if only for convention's sake? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/
On Wed 08 Feb 2006, Wayne Davison wrote:> Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please > give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any > questions, comments, bug reports, etc.A couple of text improvements / typos that were sent to me... Paul Slootman --- rsync-2.6.7pre1.orig/rsync.yo +++ rsync-2.6.7pre1/rsync.yo @@ -1014,7 +1018,7 @@ as it is sent to the destination machine, which reduces the amount of data being transmitted -- something that is useful over a slow connection. -Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios that can +Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios than can be achieved by using a compressing remote shell or a compressing transport because it takes advantage of the implicit information in the matching data blocks that are not explicitly sent over the connection. @@ -1191,7 +1195,7 @@ You can also set the partial-dir value the RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR environment variable. Setting this in the environment does not force bf(--partial) to be -enabled, but rather it effects where partial files go when bf(--partial) is +enabled, but rather it affects where partial files go when bf(--partial) is specified. For instance, instead of using bf(--partial-dir=.rsync-tmp) along with bf(--progress), you could set RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR=.rsync-tmp in your environment and then just use the bf(-P) option to turn on the use of the @@ -1268,7 +1272,7 @@ instead of transferred. This option is inferred if there is no destination specified, so you don't usually need to use it explicitly. However, it can come in handy for a user that wants to avoid the "bf(-r --exclude='/*/*')" -options that rsync might use as a compatibility kluge when generating a +options that rsync might use as a compatibility kludge when generating a non-recursive listing, or to list the files that are involved in a local copy (since the destination path is not optional for a local copy, you must specify this option explicitly and still include a destination). @@ -1593,7 +1597,7 @@ "- foo + bar" is parsed as two rules (assuming that prefix-parsing wasn't also disabled). it() You may also specify any of the modifiers for the "+" or "-" rules - (below) in order to have the rules that are read-in from the file + (below) in order to have the rules that are read in from the file default to having that modifier set. For instance, "merge,-/ .excl" would treat the contents of .excl as absolute-path excludes, while "dir-merge,s .filt" and ":sC" would each make all their @@ -1654,7 +1658,7 @@ This will merge the contents of the /home/user/.global-filter file at the start of the list and also turns the ".rules" filename into a per-directory -filter file. All rules read-in prior to the start of the directory scan +filter file. All rules read in prior to the start of the directory scan follow the global anchoring rules (i.e. a leading slash matches at the root of the transfer). @@ -2062,7 +2066,7 @@ manpagebugs() -times are transferred as unix time_t values +times are transferred as Unix time_t values When transferring to FAT filesystems rsync may re-sync unmodified files.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:> --- rsync-2.6.7pre1.orig/rsync.yo > +++ rsync-2.6.7pre1/rsync.yo > @@ -1014,7 +1018,7 @@ > as it is sent to the destination machine, which reduces the amount of data > being transmitted -- something that is useful over a slow connection. > > -Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios that can > +Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios than cansomeone got the than->this but missed the double this at the beginning!
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:07:13PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:> Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please > give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any > questions, comments, bug reports, etc.Hi, The NEWS didn't mention the new functionality allowing to take into account renamed files and not retransfer them. Will it be included in 2.6.7? Thanks, -- If I want your opinion I'll give you one.
How does this function work? I have not seen it discussed on the mailling list. Thanks, Gian> >On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:07:13PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > > >>Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please >>give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any >>questions, comments, bug reports, etc. >> >> > >Hi, > >The NEWS didn't mention the new functionality allowing to take into >account renamed files and not retransfer them. > >Will it be included in 2.6.7? > >Thanks, > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________ >Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > >rsync mailing list >rsync@lists.samba.org >https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > >