Potential incompatibilities between '--delete' and --copy-unsafe-symlinks' ???

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Daniel Freedman <
freedman at systems.cs.cornell.edu> wrote:

>   (1) Why is this the silent default?
>

It's not silent -- it outputs errors that lets you know what happened and
what it is doing (disabling deletes).

  (2) How do I achieve what I "want", which is:
>

Kevin already mentioned the correct solution: stop using cp -al and instead
use rsync into an empty dir with --link-dest.  This also solves several
other bogus things that happen when rsync copying over a hard-linked
directory hierarchy.

..wayne..
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