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| author | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-01-03 19:49:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-01-03 19:49:05 -0800 |
| commit | 49eb0c4a3518ad16d9a67f136fc6f1965c8690f0 (patch) | |
| tree | d58596a7689c091f6796590931145f0f9a327461 | |
| parent | 050e5334d8eb98b3b851bdeb4e174d2afc53b795 (diff) | |
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Mention that sorting the --files-from input is helpful.
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@@ -1619,6 +1619,12 @@ bf(--files-from) filenames are being sent from one host to another, the filenames will be translated from the sending host's charset to the receiving host's charset. +NOTE: sorting the list of files in the --files-from input helps rsync to be +more efficient, as it will avoid re-visiting the path elements that are shared +between adjacent entries. If the input is not sorted, some path elements +(implied directories) may end up being scanned multiple times, and rsync will +eventually unduplicate them after they get turned into file-list elements. + dit(bf(-0, --from0)) This tells rsync that the rules/filenames it reads from a file are terminated by a null ('\0') character, not a NL, CR, or CR+LF. This affects bf(--exclude-from), bf(--include-from), bf(--files-from), and any |