> Can you tell me where it says that symbolic links are copied as files?
"[copy: section]
symlink
This option may be repeated a number of times to specify the names of
files, or wildcards which match files which are to be symbolically linked
instead of copied."
This leads me to think that if I don't specify 'symlink', then files (including
links) would be copied as files (like a bare 'cp').
My impression was confirmed by :
"This [linktype] only applies if the file is linked rather than copied because
it matches a pattern set by symlink."
My experience is :
- the default behavior of 'copy:' is to copy links as links (which is not so
intuitive, neither very explicit in the documentation - but I understand this
can be a very useful feature)
- so if I want to copy links as files, I need to set 'linktype'
- ok but the documentation says "'linktype' is related to 'symlink'"
- which is not the case because I didn't set 'symlink', nor 'linkcopies'
> 3) The order of options seems to matter :
Is there a constraint or limit in the option part of copy: ?
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