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...Windows shortcuts, which results in '.lnk' being appended to the symbolic link file name on the Windows volume (although Cygwin ls will hide this extension). I suspect this causes rsync to think the symbolic link does not exist on the destination and recopy it. Cygwin has an 'nowinsymlinks' env var switch to revert it symbolic link behavior to its previous default of creating symbolic links as UNIX links (see "How do symbolic links work?" at http://cygwin.com/faq.html) , and one can easily confirm this env var works correctly with the ln - s command in the Cygwin...