rsync - Feb 2005 - hard links question

this my scenario:
all commands are local

rsync -a file1 file2
cp -l file2 file3
chown some_other_existing_user:group file1
rsync -a file1 file2

now file2 and file3 are both hard links and
permissions are shared in  both, versus rsync creating
new file2.
Desired behavior is to create new file if permissions
have changed versus changing file2 in place.
Is there any workaround for this.
Thank you very much, 
Farid

 

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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0800, Alex Farid Aliev
wrote:
> Desired behavior is to create new file if permissions
> have changed versus changing file2 in place.
Rsync doesn't have any logic to try to deal with hard-links from files
inside of the transfer to files outside of the transfer.  If you're
doing some kind of a backup, check into the --link-dest option:  you
would transfer into an empty hierarchy and let rsync create the hard-
links for identical files (in both attributes and content).

..wayne..