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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2005-09-13 01:02:54 +0000
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2005-09-13 01:02:54 +0000
commit08d82b84cbed81203ffaa349228421c47aee4b14 (patch)
treecb2b1866c22c5e6a1cb1b2dae5cb8054807d0b02
parentfbe57fdc955de2c5d59cbfcb4ca67b98b706c35e (diff)
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The --help text was outputting some incomplete information on how
SRC is expanded or word-split, so I removed that text and replaced it with an explaination of how ':' differs from '::' & 'rsync://'.
-rw-r--r--options.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 669b15f9..3101c3da 100644
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -258,9 +258,8 @@ void usage(enum logcode F)
rprintf(F," or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST\n");
rprintf(F," or rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST]\n");
rprintf(F," or rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST\n");
- rprintf(F,"SRC on single-colon remote HOST will be expanded by remote shell\n");
- rprintf(F,"SRC on server remote HOST may contain shell wildcards or multiple\n");
- rprintf(F," sources separated by space as long as they have same top-level\n");
+ rprintf(F,"The ':' usages connect via remote shell, while '::' & 'rsync://' usages connect\n");
+ rprintf(F,"to an rsync daemon, and require SRC or DEST to start with a module name.\n");
rprintf(F,"\nOptions\n");
rprintf(F," -v, --verbose increase verbosity\n");
rprintf(F," -q, --quiet suppress non-error messages\n");