From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:19:23 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Clarify what extraneous hard link are.
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Clarify what extraneous hard link are.
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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 5f885863..f4cb2ba6 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -875,7 +875,8 @@ destination exactly matches that on the source.  Cases in which the
 destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
 
 quote(itemization(
-  it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+  it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-links (more linking than
+  what is present in the source file list), the copying algorithm will not
   break them explicitly.  However, if one or more of the paths have content
   differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
   (unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).