Attachment 14454 Details for Bug 5792 – Fix bug 5792 by documenting existing behavior.

[patch] Fix bug 5792 by documenting existing behavior.

0001-Fix-bug-5792-by-documenting-existing-behavior.patch (text/plain), 1.86 KB, created by Stéphane Gourichon on 2018-08-30 11:05:01 UTC

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Creator: Stéphane Gourichon

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>From b25d9810c5fdb3dfd52b9cd31d7497565e582be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Stephane Gourichon <stephane_rsyncgit@gourichon.org>
>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:03:52 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug 5792 by documenting existing behavior.
>
>This fulfills a wish by bug assignee Matt McCutchen https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5792
>---
> rsync.yo | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
>index 71008576..59a31e92 100644
>--- a/rsync.yo
>+++ b/rsync.yo
>@@ -1316,7 +1316,10 @@ unchanged, but may differ in some areas.  Notably, a dry run does not
> send the actual data for file transfers, so bf(--progress) has no effect,
> the "bytes sent", "bytes received", "literal data", and "matched data"
> statistics are too small, and the "speedup" value is equivalent to a run
>-where no file transfers were needed.
>+where no file transfers were needed.  Also, the log file (see
>+bf(--log-file=FILE)) will em(not) log all files that would have been
>+transferred, use (bf(-i, --itemize-changes)) or bf(--out-format='%i %n%L')
>+for that.
> 
> dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) This option disables rsync's delta-transfer algorithm,
> which causes all transferred files to be sent whole.  The transfer may be
>@@ -2244,7 +2247,9 @@ to a file.  This is similar to the logging that a daemon does, but can be
> requested for the client side and/or the server side of a non-daemon
> transfer.  If specified as a client option, transfer logging will be
> enabled with a default format of "%i %n%L".  See the bf(--log-file-format)
>-option if you wish to override this.
>+option if you wish to override this.  em(Warning): in case of dry-run, this
>+does not provide the full list of what would have been transferred, only
>+(bf(-i, --itemize-changes)) or bf(--out-format='%i %n%L') provide that.
> 
> Here's a example command that requests the remote side to log what is
> happening:
>-- 
>2.17.1
>

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