[tombrossman]

For years I had a custom script sync my ~/.ssh directory on my primary workstation to my laptop, to pick up new keys and config changes. It failed after I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora, and I was surprised to discover --xattrs fixed it.

tl;dr try this if rsync fails in unexpected ways:

  echo "Syncing ~/.ssh directory"
  rsync --archive --delete --xattrs ~/.ssh/ laptop:.ssh/