severity 15727 wishlist retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest stop
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