On Thu, 19 May 2005, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
John, Wayne,
:-) Howdy, pardner...
Heh heh heh. :-D
Previously rsync was skipping the symlinks because you didn't specify
--links, so --safe-links had no effect. ...
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:00:22AM -0500, John Van Essen wrote:
Instead of --safe-links, shouldn't that be --copy-unsafe-links?
Yes, I misspoke there. The --safe-links option just causes the unsafe
symlinks to be skipped, not copied. Still, unless symlinks are actually
being copied (as
While on the subject of symlinks,
it would be nice to have an option to convert absolute symlinks
(pointing to an object inside the tree being transferred) to
relative ones during the copy, as those probably won't be useful.
Example:
$ cd /tmp
$ find /tmp/a -ls (edited a bit for width)
