Replacement for cp -i --reply=no ?

[Jerry Peek]

I searched around gnu.org, and searched this list back to the start of 
2006, for info on why cp --reply is deprecated (and will be removed in 
2008).  Sorry if this has been asked before... but what's the 
replacement for cp -i --reply=no ?  I use it, for instance, when I'd 
started a long-running recursive directory copy that was interrupted in 
the middle and I want to re-start cp to finish the job.  Using 
--reply=no tells cp not to overwrite existing files; it saves a lot of 
useless re-copying.

Thanks.

Jerry