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author | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-09-13 15:58:25 -0700 |
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committer | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-09-13 16:03:59 -0700 |
commit | 998df4b0c0c7fca98a02bc07423d0a922b737376 (patch) | |
tree | c558137aafbed48ffae172d17d061f47081d5786 | |
parent | 675f864c6d718f49be976d1aab4ea20b6cc5c104 (diff) | |
download | rsync-998df4b0c0c7fca98a02bc07423d0a922b737376.tar.gz |
Added "SORTED TRANSFER ORDER" manpage section.
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@@ -281,6 +281,19 @@ daemon (including stand-alone and inetd configurations). If you're using one of the remote-shell transports for the transfer, there is no need to manually start an rsync daemon. +manpagesection(SORTED TRANSFER ORDER) + +Rsync always sorts the specified filenames into its internal transfer list. +This handles the merging together of the contents of identically named +directories, makes it easy to remove duplicate filenames, and may confuse +someone when the files are transferred in a different order than what was +given on the command-line. + +If you need a particular file to be transferred prior to another, either +separate the files into different rsync calls, or consider using +bf(--delay-updates) (which doesn't affect the sorted transfer order, but +does make the final file-updating phase happen much more rapidly). + manpagesection(EXAMPLES) Here are some examples of how I use rsync. |