[SCM] The rsync repository. - branch master updated

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Sun Jun 2 14:14:10 MDT 2013


The branch, master has been updated
       via  d9ca1e4 Tweak --checksum-seed docs.
      from  0ab8e16 Avoid preallocation on inplace file that is already long enough.

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commit d9ca1e49904b2b8506a84b630097b42212356df1
Author: Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org>
Date:   Sun Jun 2 13:14:27 2013 -0700

    Tweak --checksum-seed docs.

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Summary of changes:
 options.c |    1 +
 rsync.yo  |   18 +++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


Changeset truncated at 500 lines:

diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 088202e..91e3fdd 100644
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ void usage(enum logcode F)
 #ifdef ICONV_OPTION
   rprintf(F,"     --iconv=CONVERT_SPEC    request charset conversion of filenames\n");
 #endif
+  rprintf(F,"     --checksum-seed=NUM     set block/file checksum seed (advanced)\n");
   rprintf(F," -4, --ipv4                  prefer IPv4\n");
   rprintf(F," -6, --ipv6                  prefer IPv6\n");
   rprintf(F,"     --version               print version number\n");
diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 91a446f..3aef0c2 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -2551,15 +2551,15 @@ If rsync was complied without support for IPv6, the bf(--ipv6) option
 will have no effect.  The bf(--version) output will tell you if this
 is the case.
 
-dit(bf(--checksum-seed=NUM)) Set the checksum seed to the integer
-NUM.  This 4 byte checksum seed is included in each block and file
-checksum calculation.  By default the checksum seed is generated
-by the server and defaults to the current code(time()).  This option
-is used to set a specific checksum seed, which is useful for
-applications that want repeatable block and file checksums, or
-in the case where the user wants a more random checksum seed.
-Setting NUM to 0 causes rsync to use the default of code(time())
-for checksum seed.
+dit(bf(--checksum-seed=NUM)) Set the checksum seed to the integer NUM.  This 4
+byte checksum seed is included in each block and MD4 file checksum calculation
+(the more modern MD5 file checksums don't use a seed).  By default the checksum
+seed is generated by the server and defaults to the current code(time()).  This
+option is used to set a specific checksum seed, which is useful for
+applications that want repeatable block checksums, or in the case where the
+user wants a more random checksum seed.  Setting NUM to 0 causes rsync to use
+the default of code(time()) for checksum seed.
+
 enddit()
 
 manpagesection(DAEMON OPTIONS)


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