X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/49eb0c4a3518ad16d9a67f136fc6f1965c8690f0..75a1a04847beb40a6fb1ce684562c358843a56fb:/rsync.yo diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index af95b851..c09114eb 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -943,13 +943,14 @@ 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 already contains hard links, rsync will not break - them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content - differences, the normal file-update process will break those links, unless - you are using the bf(--inplace) option. + it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync 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). it() If you specify a bf(--link-dest) directory that contains hard links, - rsync may use the same bf(--link-dest) file multiple times via several of - its paths. + the linking of the destination files against the bf(--link-dest) files can + cause some paths in the destination to become linked together due to the + bf(--link-dest) associations. )) Note that rsync can only detect hard links between files that are inside @@ -1176,10 +1177,6 @@ dit(bf(-S, --sparse)) Try to handle sparse files efficiently so they take up less space on the destination. Conflicts with bf(--inplace) because it's not possible to overwrite data in a sparse fashion. -NOTE: Don't use this option when the destination is a Solaris "tmpfs" -filesystem. It seems to have problems seeking over null regions, -and ends up corrupting the files. - dit(bf(-n, --dry-run)) This makes rsync perform a trial run that doesn't make any changes (and produces mostly the same output as a real run). It is most commonly used in combination with the bf(-v, --verbose) and/or @@ -1489,7 +1486,7 @@ initial items are marked as perishable -- see the FILTER RULES section): quote(quote(tt(RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state .nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* _$* *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-* -*.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .git/ .bzr/))) +*.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .git/ .hg/ .bzr/))) then, files listed in a $HOME/.cvsignore are added to the list and any files listed in the CVSIGNORE environment variable (all cvsignore names