Re: difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

2009-06-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33:34AM +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options. My question is what is the difference between these options in below scenario? Implied directories are those that

Re: difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

2009-06-30 Thread paresh masani
Thanks Wayne; I understood your point but two more questions arise from details given by you is, if I have --keep-dirlinks specified but not --no-implied-dir then also it sends directory attributes, and the destination is forced to match that results into losing destination symlinks? I have

difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

2009-06-28 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hi, I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options. My question is what is the difference between these options in below scenario? I have /foo/bar is the symlink to /foo/baz at source and same directory structure with symlink