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bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if


From: Assaf Gordon
Subject: bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if one of files is a dir and other not
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 02:17:33 -0700
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severity 15727 wishlist
retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest
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Hello,

On 2013-10-29 12:20 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote:
[...]
You need to make the docs much more clear about "cp"s limitations.

update isn't eally update, and -T is certainly wrong at the very
least.  If you feel you'd rather document cp's limitations,
that's fine...

cp is a great tool, don't get me wrong!  But when it added update
and -T, --remove-destination, it started inferring or promising
more than you were willing to deliver.  That should be documented.

Based on the above (as the result of the long discussion),
I'm marking this as a documentation wish-list item:

clarify that "-f" and "--remove-destination" won't replace a file
with a directory (as explained by Pádraig and Bernhard in the thread).

Similarly for related limitations of "-T".

regards,
 - assaf









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