Rsync 3.0.9pre2 released

[Paul Slootman]

On Sat 10 Sep 2011, Wayne Davison wrote:

> Rsync version 3.0.9pre2 is now available for release testing.  This is
> a bug-fix release.

I've uploaded rsync_3.0.9~pre2-1 to debian/experimental, for those who
want to give it a try.


Note the Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/640869 ;
quoting a bit:

----
 rsync --help says that:

(snip)
     --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer, not during
     --delete-during         receiver deletes during transfer (default)
(snip)


 But man rsync says:

(snip)
            --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer (default)
            --delete-during         receiver deletes during xfer, not before
----

It looks like the manpage needs updating here?


Additionally people keep getting confused about the fact that rsync
sorts its file list; perhaps that could be mentioned explicitly in the
manpage somewhere?  The latest issue was that it also sorts the command
line arguments when there are multiple source files explicitly listed,
see http://bugs.debian.org/640492

It would be nice to see these changes before 3.0.9 is released :-)


Paul