[SCM] The rsync repository. - branch master updated

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Mon Feb 21 00:34:40 MST 2011


The branch, master has been updated
       via  3bd9f51 Improve some hard-link caveats in the manpage.
      from  86e90c5 Add .hg dir exclude to default_cvsignore list. Fixes bug 7957.

;a=shortlog;h=master


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commit 3bd9f51917ed5718275c6132006be155239a0550
Author: Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 20 23:29:00 2011 -0800

    Improve some hard-link caveats in the manpage.

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Summary of changes:
 rsync.yo |   13 +++++++------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 65daed5..5c11d95 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -943,13 +943,14 @@ destination exactly matches that on the source.  Cases in which the
 destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
 
 quote(itemization(
-  it() If the destination already contains hard links, rsync will not break
-  them explicitly.  However, if one or more of the paths have content
-  differences, the normal file-update process will break those links, unless
-  you are using the bf(--inplace) option.
+  it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+  break them explicitly.  However, if one or more of the paths have content
+  differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
+  (unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).
   it() If you specify a bf(--link-dest) directory that contains hard links,
-  rsync may use the same bf(--link-dest) file multiple times via several of
-  its paths.
+  the linking of the destination files against the bf(--link-dest) files can
+  cause some paths in the destination to become linked together due to the
+  bf(--link-dest) associations.
 ))
 
 Note that rsync can only detect hard links between files that are inside


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