RFE: extend --keep-dirlinks to files also

[Hendrik Maryns]

Hi,

I just read the thread 
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-June/009678.html which 
describes how --keep-dirlinks came to be.  My use case is similar, but 
I’d like a similar option for files as well.

Setup: in my public_html I have some symlinks which I send over as 
files, with -L (for various reasons: partly, because they are copies of 
current work which is done elsewhere, or because several websites use 
the same files, such as SSI footers).  However, I also want to check 
whether my colleague changed the files on the server, so first I do an 
update.  However, this replaces the links with the files themselves.

My current usage is:

# First look whether stuff changed on the other side (shouldn’t)
# rsync -rtKPuzb webserver:public_html/ /home/hendrik/public_html/Hendrik/
# Then put changes from here.
rsync -rtkKLPzC --delete --delete-excluded 
--exclude-from=/home/hendrik/.website-exclude 
/home/hendrik/public_html/Hendrik/ webserver:public_html

As you can see, I have the first line commented out, because it replaces 
symlinks.  I’d like something similar to --keep-dirlinks which follows 
links on the receiver and compares the files linked to with those sent.

Is this possible, or is it an RFE?

Cheers, H.
-- 
Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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