The branch, master has been updated
via 3bd9f51 Improve some hard-link caveats in the manpage.
from 86e90c5 Add .hg dir exclude to default_cvsignore list. Fixes bug
7957.
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commit 3bd9f51917ed5718275c6132006be155239a0550
Author: Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org>
Date: Sun Feb 20 23:29:00 2011 -0800
Improve some hard-link caveats in the manpage.
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Summary of changes:
rsync.yo | 13 +++++++------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 65daed5..5c11d95 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -943,13 +943,14 @@ destination exactly matches that on the source. Cases in
which the
destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
quote(itemization(
- it() If the destination already contains hard links, rsync will not break
- them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content
- differences, the normal file-update process will break those links, unless
- you are using the bf(--inplace) option.
+ it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+ break them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content
+ differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
+ (unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).
it() If you specify a bf(--link-dest) directory that contains hard links,
- rsync may use the same bf(--link-dest) file multiple times via several of
- its paths.
+ the linking of the destination files against the bf(--link-dest) files can
+ cause some paths in the destination to become linked together due to the
+ bf(--link-dest) associations.
))
Note that rsync can only detect hard links between files that are inside
--
The rsync repository.
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