DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3693] rsync -H should break outdated hard-links to identical files

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3693





------- Comment #7 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2008-02-06 21:55 CST -------
There's another aspect to this problem: a file's attributes can be tweaked
unexpectedly through an outdated hard link.  Example:

$ echo data >foo
$ chmod 600 foo
$ ln foo bar
$ rsync -aHi foo bar dest/
>f+++++++++ foo
hf+++++++++ bar => foo
$ rm bar
$ cp -a foo bar
$ chmod 644 bar
$ rsync -aHi foo bar dest/
.f...p..... bar
.f...p..... foo
$ rsync -aHi foo bar dest/
.f...p..... bar
.f...p..... foo
$ rsync -aHi foo bar dest/
.f...p..... bar
.f...p..... foo

--no-tweak-hlinked would fix this.


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