scp and symlinks

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:05, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just found out that scp resolves symlinks and the man page doesn't
> mention it.
> I would like to copy symlinks as symlinks. Does anyone know of a
> workaround or undocumented feature?

I use rsync for just this reason. I too needed to preserve symlinks. scp
did not fit the bill. I doubt if it ever will. Odd choice. Could be that
scp has a windows client and that would not allow a symbolic link? I
can't say that I really know the reason.