Re: manual / copy symlinks

> 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: ?