bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Because if we don't do that, we have to create new directory Test1 and
>>> then test if Test1 is a subdir of Test.
>> No we don't have to do that.  We can do the extra work in copy-directory
>> (so we call file-equal-p on "~/test" rather than on "~/test/test1" when
>> "~/test/test1" doesn't exist yet).
> If you don't create test1, you will never have a value of
> file-attributes for it, and file-directory-p will return always nil on
> test1.

I don't understand why you think that's a problem.


        Stefan