>From 8e8d3e6fb8657eda0bccb3332e42a78be4d05674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:51:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Add a sentence to clarify that mv(1) will only replace empty directories in the target, and fail with a diagnostic otherwise. Discussed at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-12/msg00000.html --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index a13c6e7..595cb9f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -9094,6 +9094,9 @@ However, on other systems (at least FreeBSD 6.1 and Solaris 10) it silently renames not the symlink but rather the directory referenced by the symlink. @xref{Trailing slashes}. +@emph{Note}: @command{mv} will only replace empty directories in the +destination. Conflicting populated directories are skipped with a diagnostic. + The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @table @samp -- 2.1.4