Commit 4a4622bb authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Improve the description of --update with respect to symlinks and

special files.
parent c9ec4608
......@@ -668,13 +668,12 @@ the destination and have a modified time that is newer than the source
file. (If an existing destination file has a modification time equal to the
source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.)
In the current implementation of bf(--update), a difference of file format
between the sender and receiver is always
considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what date
is on the objects. In other words, if the source has a directory or a
symlink where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur
regardless of the timestamps. This might change in the future (feel
free to comment on this on the mailing list if you have an opinion).
Note that this does not affect the copying of symlinks or other special
files. Also, a difference of file format between the sender and receiver
is always considered to be important enough for an update, no matter what
date is on the objects. In other words, if the source has a directory
where the destination has a file, the transfer would occur regardless of
the timestamps.
dit(bf(--inplace)) This causes rsync not to create a new copy of the file
and then move it into place. Instead rsync will overwrite the existing
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