[Bug 882] Scp cannot copy self-referring directories

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=882





------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2004-07-01 10:50 -------
Right now, scp does not understand symlinks at all, and afaict having it
understand them enough to be able to copy them (like "rsync -l") would require a
protocol change (which is not going to happen).

Maybe we could add an option to scp to skip links ("scp -l" ?)  Opinions?



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