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author | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-02-23 07:19:23 -0800 |
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committer | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2011-02-23 07:19:52 -0800 |
commit | da9b72b36c2c6336811aba57d972f3fb687242b1 (patch) | |
tree | 027752343d821551075aa9a1acf803fc6c992b4d /rsync.yo | |
parent | 75a1a04847beb40a6fb1ce684562c358843a56fb (diff) | |
download | rsync-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). |