destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
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- 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).