difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

[paresh masani]

Thanks Wayne; I understood  your point but two more questions arise
from details given by you is, if I have --keep-dirlinks specified but not
--no-implied-dir then also it sends directory attributes, and the
destination is forced to match that results into losing destination
symlinks? I have tested this and noticed that it doesn't remove destination
symlinks.

The other question is, if I specified --no-implied-dir then would rsync
synch symlinks and directory entries if same are not available at
destination? I have tested this but still confusing in differentiating these
two options. I am not able to find any differences. Could you help me out
with one real example that show the difference between these options?

Jignesh

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33:34AM +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
> > I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both
> > --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options.  My question is what is the
> > difference between these options in below scenario?
>
> Implied directories are those that are above the transfer area but
> included as a part of the path due to the use of -R (--relative).  By
> default all implied directories get sent with their directory
> attributes, and the destination is forced to match that.  If you want
> the implied paths to differ, --no-implied-dir will leave them alone.
>
> Using --keep-dirlinks also affects the transfer area, so that you can
> put a symlink to a directory anyplace that the sender has a dir.
>
> ..wayne..
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