[Bug 8456] improve --link-dest bahaviour

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Wed Sep 14 10:24:35 MDT 2011


https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8456

--- Comment #4 from Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> 2011-09-14 16:24:35 UTC ---
No, the problem is a complete different IMHO:
If the "touch" command is skipped, then rsync does hard-link the file instead
to copy it over !

In general - --link-dest works as expected *only*, if the destination directory
is empty.

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