On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 01:14 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > I've been thinking about the current behavior of the --link-dest=DIR > option. In the absence of --delete, ALL members of DIR should be linked > to the destination (aside from those that are changed). If not, there > should at least be a --no-link-dest-delete option. (This latter option > might be better to avoid disrupting the behavior of current rsync commands)
Interesting suggestion. Currently, the meaning of --link-dest=DIR is somewhere between "use DIR as an optimization" and "regard DIR as the previous version of the destination", and it is not ideally suited for either use case. I have proposed splitting it into --link-basis-dir and --link-dest variants for the two meanings: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5645 The new --link-dest would itemize deletions with respect to the basis dir when --delete is on, even though nothing is actually being deleted, as separately proposed here: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5263 And, now that you mention it, I guess the new --link-dest should also hard-link in files from the basis dir that have no counterpart in the source when --delete is off. A currently possible way to get the same result as my hypothetical new --link-dest is to "cp -al" the basis dir to the destination first and then rsync to the destination. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
