Over-writing symlinks

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Mon Mar 17 15:52:37 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:39 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> It looks like --ignore-existing is currently implemented to apply only
> to regular files.  I think it was intended to apply to all
> non-directories; certainly that is necessary if it is to prevent
> undesired tweaking when a --link-dest run is restarted after an
> interruption.

Wayne has extended --ignore-existing to apply to all non-directories in
the current development rsync.  Dale, your scenario should work now.

Matt



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