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| author | David Dykstra <dwd@samba.org> | 1999-02-17 21:39:45 +0000 |
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| committer | David Dykstra <dwd@samba.org> | 1999-02-17 21:39:45 +0000 |
| commit | 15800c7e89b4b5a51b6fe7cc42e28be6c37bb04f (patch) | |
| tree | 76d84bf544df25bb35b0ae3e506e5e0adebdc811 /rsync.yo | |
| parent | b53136076392ff881a03baff19232aadc4617f92 (diff) | |
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Changed man page documentation of --force to say it is hardly ever needed
any more except in very obscure cases.
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@@ -447,11 +447,10 @@ destination. dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete option and to cases where rsync tries to copy a normal file but the destination -contains a directory of the same name. Normally rsync will refuse to -do a recursive directory deletion in such cases, by using --force -the recursive deletion will be done. +contains a directory of the same name. -Use this option with caution! +Since this option was added, deletions were reordered to be done depth-first +so it is hardly ever needed anymore except in very obscure cases. dit(bf(-B , --block_size=BLOCKSIZE)) This controls the block size used in the rsync algorithm. See the technical report for details. |