On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:47:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There you go - the symlink versus the populated directory. It's kind of a | safety. To bypass it, add "--force". | --force | This options tells rsync to delete directories even if | they are not empty. This applies to both the --delete | option and to cases where rsync tries to copy a normal | file but the destination contains a directory of the | same name. | | Since this option was added, deletions were reordered | to be done depth-first so it is hardly ever needed | anymore except in very obscure cases. | | We have cases like this, and --force was the solution.
I'm still curious why --delete by itself didn't remove the members of the directory at the target, since those didn't exist at the source. It would have been helpful if the --delete documentation made a reference to --force. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------
