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@@ -316,6 +316,12 @@ everything else. It doesn't change or remove anything outside: fails, telling what's wrong, unless the source's `reclone` is set. Git runs no hooks. +* A file in the target directory that has other hard links, e.g. one in + `/etc/nixos`, gets replaced by a copy of its own before rsync syncs it, so + the other ones keep their mode and time. Populate writes its own files, + and replaces lock files it rewrites, by renaming new files into place, and + only makes directories writable that it removes. + * Populate keeps its state in the sentinel, `.populate`, which becomes a directory once there is state to keep. Populating fails if the sentinel, or a directory populate needs therein, is a symlink. |