Re: [PATCH] additions to rsync web page

[Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:42:29AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm planning to make the following changes to gcc.gnu.org/rsync.html,
> > based on information that would have been useful to me when I first
> > used rsync with the GCC CVS repository.
> >
> > Change log will be:
> >
> >   Add information about how to define CVSROOT, mention that there's
> >   no feedback from rsync at first, and some minor language changes.
> 
> It might be good to mention that adding --verbose --progress to the
> command line will give a lot more feedback, including during that
> initial silent phase.  Also, adding --exclude '#cvs.*' to the
> suggested command line would be a good idea - this makes it ignore
> lock files, which otherwise can cause spurious errors.

Good, I'll add that information
> 
> I don't find the information given by --stats all that helpful, is
> there a reason it's included?

It was already there.  Someone must have found it helpful.  We could
have a recommended command line and then a list of other options that
people could look up in the rsync docs to see if they want them.

Janis