From da9b72b36c2c6336811aba57d972f3fb687242b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:19:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify what extraneous hard link are. --- rsync.yo | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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). -- 2.34.1