Commit 8030518d authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Clarify incremental recursion's effect on --hard-link.

parent e630fd11
......@@ -963,7 +963,10 @@ see the bf(--inplace) option for more caveats).
If incremental recursion is active (see bf(--recursive)), rsync may transfer
a missing hard-linked file before it finds that another link for that contents
exists elsewhere in the hierarchy. This does not affect the accuracy of
the transfer, just its efficiency. One way to avoid this is to disable
the transfer (i.e. which files are hard-linked together), just its efficiency
(i.e. copying the data for a new, early copy of a hard-linked file that could
have been found later in the transfer in another member of the hard-linked
set of files). One way to avoid this inefficiency is to disable
incremental recursion using the bf(--no-inc-recursive) option.
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes the receiving rsync to set the
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