X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/75a1a04847beb40a6fb1ce684562c358843a56fb..da9b72b36c2c6336811aba57d972f3fb687242b1:/rsync.yo diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index c09114eb..838d9688 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -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).