rsync - Dec 2007 - Question about --copy-unsafe-links

This refers to version 3.0.0pre6 if that's relevant.

I was expecting that if I specified the --copy-unsafe-links option to
rsync that I'd then get no warnings about 'skipping non-regular file
"bla/bla/bla"' but it doesn't seem to work like that.

It *sounds* from the man page that if I set --copy-unsafe-links then
symlinks that point 'elsewhere' will copy the actual file to the
destination (rather than creating a symlink) and symlinks that point
somewhere 'local' (i.e. to files which are part of the copy) will be
copied as symlinks.  However in practice when I set --copy-unsafe-links
I still get warning messages.

What should I be setting to get 'remote' symlinks to copy the referred
file and 'local' symlinks copied as symlinks?

-- 
Chris Green

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:13 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I was expecting that if I specified the --copy-unsafe-links option to
> rsync that I'd then get no warnings about 'skipping non-regular
file
> "bla/bla/bla"' but it doesn't seem to work like that.
You have to additionally pass --links to make rsync copy the safe
symlinks.  This is mentioned in the "SYMBOLIC LINKS" section of the
man
page.

Matt