From: Wayne Davison Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:08:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Improved the --modify-window description. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.4pre1~199 X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=rsync.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f1f94d1de3a5bbd5e5134f461d58dd9b2f80ee8 Improved the --modify-window description. --- diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 48ba5f2d..2c8f518a 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -434,12 +434,13 @@ regardless of timestamp. This is useful when starting to use rsync after using another mirroring system which may not preserve timestamps exactly. -dit(bf(--modify-window)) When comparing two timestamps rsync treats -the timestamps as being equal if they are within the value of -modify_window. This is normally zero, but you may find it useful to -set this to a larger value in some situations. In particular, when -transferring to Windows FAT filesystems which cannot represent times -with a 1 second resolution bf(--modify-window=1) is useful. +dit(bf(--modify-window)) When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the +timestamps as being equal if they differ by no more than the modify-window +value. This is normally 0 (for an exact match), but you may find it useful +to set this to a larger value in some situations. In particular, when +transferring to or from an MS Windows FAT filesystem (which represents +times with a 2-second resolution), bf(--modify-window=1) is useful +(allowing times to differ by up to 1 second). dit(bf(-c, --checksum)) This forces the sender to checksum all files using a 128-bit MD4 checksum before transfer. The checksum is then