Re: [PATCH] --links-depth for rsync

2004-07-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:09:46PM +0200, Antti Tapaninen wrote: > The attached patch gives the user ability to define how many symbolic > links rsync should follow before actually adding it to the file list. I was looking at this proposed patch and I had a couple questions: What is the intended

Re: [PATCH] --links-depth for rsync

2004-02-01 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:09:46PM +0200, Antti Tapaninen wrote: > > Hello, > > about a year ago I ran into situation where there's a "metadirectory" > containing directories and symlinks to files. There was a need to mirror > the contents of files and directories gathered via symlinks to this >

[PATCH] --links-depth for rsync

2004-01-24 Thread Antti Tapaninen
Hello, about a year ago I ran into situation where there's a "metadirectory" containing directories and symlinks to files. There was a need to mirror the contents of files and directories gathered via symlinks to this metadirectory, regular mirroring of the tree wouldn't do any good. The attache