(copy_internal) [un_backup]: When recovering from a

failure to create a hard link, do not remove the entry associating
the source dev/ino with the destination file name.

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index fcb4854cc737fae2f005a89c21a3c8380107f6e2..91ae106f5dec10c0744d4001de092e80cb5d4489 100644 (file)
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1556,11 +1556,14 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 
 un_backup:
 
-  /* We didn't create the destination.
-     Remove the entry associating the source dev/ino with the
+  /* We have failed to create the destination file.
+     If we've just added a dev/ino entry via the remember_copied
+     call above (i.e., unless we've just failed to create a hard link),
+     remove the entry associating the source dev/ino with the
      destination file name, so we don't try to `preserve' a link
      to a file we didn't create.  */
-  forget_created (src_sb.st_ino, src_sb.st_dev);
+  if (earlier_file == NULL)
+    forget_created (src_sb.st_ino, src_sb.st_dev);
 
   if (dst_backup)
     {