filesystem that has a very slow lstat(2) system call (e.g. cifs). Git will fail ... your filesystem to have an efficient lstat(2) implementation, so that st_mtime informationfiles are examined with the stat and lstat system calls. The find program tries ... struct stat populated by the lstat (or stat) system call, rounded up as shown abovecore.ignoreStat If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have changed ... files. This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as CIFS/Mic…src/./follow-me/ dest/ This works because rsync calls lstat (2) on the source arg as given ... trailing slash makes lstat (2) follow the symlink, giving rise to a directory