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Re: A file synchronization tool that respects hardlinks





On Sun, 22 Oct 2023, at 20:38, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2023 17:40 +0300, from debian@itayf.fastmail.fm (Itay):
>> The sync must be bidirectional and *respect hardlinks* because many
>> subdirs are kept under the control of darcs[1] which by default uses
>> hardlinks. The sync tool I used in the past, unison[2], does not
>> respect hardlinks[3].
>
> What do you mean by "respect hardlinks"? To preserve the multiple
> names as pointing to the same file system object (inode in classic
> *nix parlace)?
>

Exactly.  As 'rsync -H' does.

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