@@ -9,10 +9,21 @@
 area1 /tmp/oldarea/megatest
 
 [include #{getenv MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}/config/mt_include_1.config]
 
 [setup]
+
+# It is possible (but not recommended) to override the rsync command used
+# to populate the test directories. For test development the following 
+# example can be useful
+#
+testcopycmd cp --remove-destination -rsv TEST_SRC_PATH/. TEST_TARG_PATH/.
+
+# or for hard links
+
+# testcopycmd cp --remove-destination -rlv TEST_SRC_PATH/ TEST_TARG_PATH/
+
 # FULL or 2, NORMAL or 1, OFF or 0
 synchronous OFF
 # Throttle roughly scales the db access milliseconds to seconds delay
 throttle 0.2
 # Max retries allows megatest to re-check that a tests status has changed