Re: Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:47:29AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> >From rsync(1):
> 
>      --delete                delete extraneous files from dest dirs
>      --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer (default)
> 
>      --delete-during         receiver deletes during xfer, not before
>      --delete-after          receiver deletes after transfer, not before
> 

--delete is --delete-after . --del is --delete-during .

Originally there were only --delete-before and --delete-after . Thus the
"default" (--delete) became --delete-after as it is the safer of the
two.

--delete-during was added later on. It is normally the one you'd like to
use. To make it easier (but still not brak semantics), they added the
option --del that means --delete-during .

Unless the server is too old to support --delete-during , just use --del .
If it is too old, you'll simply get a syntax error message saying so.

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