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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