From: Matt McCutchen Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:08:28 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Man page description of --xattrs should not assume a push. X-Git-Tag: v3.1.0pre1~226 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5deb19e4ea1c04cac93f39d60a3a8f891a6fff74;p=thirdparty%2Frsync.git Man page description of --xattrs should not assume a push. --- diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index f8ac4bd5..17e9025f 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -1031,8 +1031,8 @@ The source and destination systems must have compatible ACL entries for this option to work properly. See the bf(--fake-super) option for a way to backup and restore ACLs that are not compatible. -dit(bf(-X, --xattrs)) This option causes rsync to update the remote -extended attributes to be the same as the local ones. +dit(bf(-X, --xattrs)) This option causes rsync to update the destination +extended attributes to be the same as the source ones. For systems that support extended-attribute namespaces, a copy being done by a super-user copies all namespaces except system.*. A normal user only copies