On 20/02/2026 15:47, Anselm Schüler wrote:
Not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, the website was a
bit unclear on this.
This patch is not finished, it’s missing tests (if that is necessary)
and documentation, but I’d like to get feedback on whether this is a
welcome change.
The motivation behind this change is that I’d like to make an alias for
cp and mv that automatically passes -T to avoid accidentally using the
wrong behaviour, but would still like to be able to invoke that
behaviour explicitly. This change makes a -T flag combined with a -t
option behave as if the -T flag wasn’t passed.
—Anselm Schüler
This change does seem useful.
-T is more like a default for how to treat 2 arg form consistently
--target-directory is an explicit operation request.
install(1) should be treated the same for consistency.
cheers,
Padraig
