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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2011-02-23 07:19:23 -0800
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2011-02-23 07:19:52 -0800
commitda9b72b36c2c6336811aba57d972f3fb687242b1 (patch)
tree027752343d821551075aa9a1acf803fc6c992b4d /rsync.yo
parent75a1a04847beb40a6fb1ce684562c358843a56fb (diff)
downloadrsync-da9b72b36c2c6336811aba57d972f3fb687242b1.tar.gz
Clarify what extraneous hard link are.
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@@ -943,7 +943,8 @@ 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 contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+ it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-links (more linking than
+ what is present in the source file list), the copying algorithm 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).