Replace symlink after removing previous symlink #462
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Resolves issue #456.
With this change,
mirror -R
can replace symlinks over sftp.One side-effect is that
ln -s
will also replace symlinks, when this would normally be an error.A better solution would allow
mirror -R
to replace symlinks without changing the behaviour ofln -s
. Any suggestions?