unsafe_symlink change (Re: CVS update: rsync)

Scott Mcdermott smcdermott at questra.com
Thu Jan 16 20:46:00 EST 2003


Dave Dykstra on Thu 16/01 14:33 -0600:
> The patch from 2-1/2 years ago for changing copy-unsafe-links to follow
> unsafe links on the destination side also included essentially this patch.

just to be clear, without using copy-unsafe-links, rsync still copies
absolute symlinks which point out of the source tree, verbatim to the
destination (even if it ends up dangling on the destination), right?



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