Clarify what extraneous hard link are.

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Wayne Davison
2011-02-23 07:19:23 -08:00
parent 2a1d251750
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@@ -875,7 +875,8 @@ destination exactly matches that on the source. Cases in which the
destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
quote(itemization(
it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-links (more linking than
what is present in the source file list), the copying algorithm will not
break them explicitly. However, if one or more of the paths have content
differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
(unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).