Bug 7861 - documentation: files-from behaves badly on unsorted input
Summary: documentation: files-from behaves badly on unsorted input
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.5
Hardware: x64 Linux
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2010-12-10 18:48 UTC by Robin Powell
Modified: 2011-01-03 21:51 UTC (History)
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Description Robin Powell 2010-12-10 18:48:13 UTC 
See http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2010-December/025857.html for full details.  Just a note in the man page/--help summary of --files-from saying that the list should be sorted would be great.  Thanks.

-Robin
Comment 1 Wayne Davison 2011-01-03 21:51:40 UTC 
I've mentioned this in the rsync manpage.  Thanks for the suggestion.