Potential new option: --delete-during

[Steve Bonds]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:28:43 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:

> Comments?  How do people feel about making the --delete-during behavior
> the default --delete algorithm?  I think it will be much more efficient
> (and less prone to timeouts), so having it as the default is the best
> choice.

This sounds quite helpful.  How does this behave in the event of a
read error on the source?  The desired behavior from my standpoint
would be to disable deletion of files in the current directory, but
continue deleting files in other directories.

  -- Steve