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Clarify the cut-off point for --copy-safe-links.

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Wayne Davison
2019-03-16 10:55:21 -07:00
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@@ -939,6 +939,13 @@ are also treated like ordinary files, and so are any symlinks in the
source path itself when bf(--relative) is used. This option has no
additional effect if bf(--copy-links) was also specified.
Note that the cut-off point is the top of the transfer, which is the part of
the path that rsync isn't mentioning in the verbose output. If you copy
"subdir" to "/dest/" then the subdir directory is a name inside the transfer
tree, not the top of the transfer (its parent directory is the top) so it is
legal for created relative symlinks to refer to other names inside the /dest
dir.
dit(bf(--safe-links)) This tells rsync to ignore any symbolic links
which point outside the copied tree. All absolute symlinks are
also ignored. Using this option in conjunction with bf(--relative) may