Re: rsync replacing symlinks without warning (resend)

2024-02-09 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
I'm not really blaming the user. If it were up to me, -v would include -i. On 2/9/24 05:36, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 7:20 PM Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: rsync's -v is fairly useless. Learn to use -i instead or in addition to. Well, note that I didn't say anything

Re: rsync replacing symlinks without warning (resend)

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher via rsync
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 7:20 PM Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > rsync's -v is fairly useless. Learn to use -i instead or in addition to. Well, note that I didn't say anything about the lib/ directory in that command; it's just that rsync decided to remove the symlink component from the path

Re: rsync replacing symlinks without warning (resend)

2024-02-04 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
rsync's -v is fairly useless. Learn to use -i instead or in addition to. On 2/4/24 12:58, Andreas Gruenbacher via rsync wrote: Hello, when trying to rsync files between hosts, I ran into a surprising case in which rsync replaces a symlink with a directory, with no indication of any kind. In