src/client/usage.c

@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ void print_usage(void) {
   printf("                      transfer has succeeded)\n");
   printf("  --delete-before     Delete extras before the transfer starts\n");
   printf("                      (implies --delete)\n");
-  printf("  --delete-during     Delete extras once the keep-set manifest is known,\n");
+  printf("  --delete-during     Delete a directory's extras as that directory is\n");
-  printf("                      before the data is applied (implies --delete)\n");
+  printf("                      processed (implies --delete)\n");
   printf("  --del               Alias for --delete-during\n");
-  printf("  --delete-delay      Delete extras only after a successful transfer\n");
+  printf("  --delete-delay      Record the extras during the scan but remove them\n");
-  printf("                      (implies --delete)\n");
+  printf("                      only after a successful transfer (implies --delete)\n");
   printf("  --delete-after      Delete only after the whole transfer succeeded\n");
   printf("                      (the default --delete timing; implies --delete)\n");
   printf("  --delete-excluded   Also delete destination files that were excluded on\n");

src/shared/config.h

@@ -547,13 +547,17 @@ typedef struct Config {
   /* rsync deletion-timing family (real from Phase 3).  At most one of
      delete_before / delete_during / delete_delay / delete_after may be set, and
      only together with use_delete (the CLI implies --delete for each of them).
-     delete_before and delete_during select the EARLY engine mode: the keep-set
+     delete_before selects the EARLY engine mode: the whole-tree keep-set
      manifest is transmitted before any file data and extras are removed then,
-     acknowledged, before the first data byte.  delete_delay and delete_after
+     acknowledged, before the first data byte.  delete_during and delete_delay
-     select the LATE commit mode: extras are removed only after the whole
+     select the per-directory delete-plan mode (protocol 2.24.0): one plan per
-     transfer has succeeded (plain --delete keeps this mode).  The exact
+     source directory is streamed in directory order, and the receiver removes
-     semantics and the divergences from rsync are documented in RSYNC_COMPAT.md
+     each directory's extras when its plan arrives (during) or snapshots them
-     and in config_delete_timing_early() below. */
+     and removes them only after a successful transfer (delay).  delete_after
+     (and plain --delete) keep the whole-tree commit mode: extras are removed
+     from a fresh end-of-transfer destination scan only after the whole transfer
+     succeeded.  See config_delete_timing_early()/config_delete_timing_per_dir()
+     below. */
   /* partial_dir */
   // PR #174: Partial transfer resumption
   /* suffix */