bug with --link-dest ?

[Matt McCutchen]

On 1/22/07, Tony Abernethy <tony at servacorp.com> wrote:
> > cd /path/to; rsync -vaH --progress --delete --stats --numeric-ids
> > -x --link-dest=./filetree/ ./filetree/ ./current/
>
> If my understanding is right, that would attempt to link files from
> ./current/./filetree
>
> You maybe want a --link-dest=../filetree
>
> (Flames invited if I've got this wrong)

You're right.  The description of --link-dest=DIR in the man page
says, "If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination
directory."  This is because the generator and receiver access the DIR
by name after changing into the destination directory.

Matt