rsync - Aug 2004 - [Bug 1673] New: Verbose dry run doesn't report replacements of symlink with directory

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673

           Summary: Verbose dry run doesn't report replacements of symlink
                    with directory
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: vanes002@umn.edu
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


After an rsync, if a directory on the target is replaced by a symlink pointing
to a new location containing the original, unchanged, directory content, a
verbose dry-run will *not* report that the directory contents from the source
will be transferred to the target and replace the symlink (which is what happens
during the non-dry-run invocation).

I discovered this during preliminary testing prior to using the new 2.6.3
--keep-dirlinks option (which, BTW, works just great in 2.6.3pre1).

This bug may be related to bug 1433.

The problem occurs with 2.6.2 (and possibly earlier) as well as with 2.6.3pre1.

Here's an example using 2.6.2:

$ ll -R a
a:
total 12
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 f1
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 f2
drwxr-xr-x    2 jve      users        4096 Feb  8  2004 projects

a/projects:
total 8
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 p1
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 p2
$ rm -rf a1
$ rsync -la a/ a1/
$ rm -r a1/projects
$ ln -s ../a/projects a1/projects
$ ll -R a1
a1:
total 8
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 f1
-rw-r--r--    1 jve      users          29 Feb  8  2004 f2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 jve      users          13 Aug 28 02:10 projects ->
../a/projects
$ rsync -lavn a/ a1/
building file list ... done

wrote 146 bytes  read 20 bytes  332.00 bytes/sec
total size is 116  speedup is 0.70
$ rsync -lav a/ a1/
building file list ... done
./
projects/
projects/p1
projects/p2

wrote 292 bytes  read 60 bytes  704.00 bytes/sec
total size is 116  speedup is 0.33

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