From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:32:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added an example for --link-dest.
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/8429aa9e0e89ae8310dcb070dcf1912369f83dd1

Added an example for --link-dest.
---

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index a3c2159e..cac32679 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -737,6 +737,11 @@ unchanged files.  Files with changed ownership or permissions will not be
 linked.
 Like bf(--compare-dest) if DIR is a relative path, it is relative
 to the destination directory (which changes in a recursive transfer).
+An example:
+
+verb(
+    rsync -av --link-dest=$PWD/prior_dir host:src_dir/ new_dir/
+)
 
 dit(bf(-z, --compress)) With this option, rsync compresses any data from
 the files that it sends to the destination machine.  This