The branch, master has been updated
via eb1b138e Clarify the cut-off point for --copy-safe-links.
from 13f59643 Some doc tweaks suggested by Clément Pit-Claudel.
https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=shortlog;h=master
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commit eb1b138ec2b363268acfef07e1face7c4e662409
Author: Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org>
Date: Sat Mar 16 10:55:21 2019 -0700
Clarify the cut-off point for --copy-safe-links.
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Summary of changes:
rsync.yo | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index df876022..207d487e 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -939,6 +939,13 @@ are also treated like ordinary files, and so are any
symlinks in the
source path itself when bf(--relative) is used. This option has no
additional effect if bf(--copy-links) was also specified.
+Note that the cut-off point is the top of the transfer, which is the part of
+the path that rsync isn't mentioning in the verbose output. If you copy
+"subdir" to "/dest/" then the subdir directory is a name inside the transfer
+tree, not the top of the transfer (its parent directory is the top) so it is
+legal for created relative symlinks to refer to other names inside the /dest
+dir.
+
dit(bf(--safe-links)) This tells rsync to ignore any symbolic links
which point outside the copied tree. All absolute symlinks are
also ignored. Using this option in conjunction with bf(--relative) may
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The rsync repository.
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