change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

[Francis.Montagnac at sophia.inria.fr]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote:

> The /data symlink is clobbered and replaced by a directory. Very bad!

> Any idea what's going on here and is there a magic flag to work around this
> problem?

I thing you simply need the --no-implied-dirs flag.

    Francis