Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: What does force_update in copy_from do?
Author: babudro
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18949,18949#msg-18949

Docs say not to use it, but the synopsis merely says, "force copy update 
always", and the notes shed no more light but are only a warning not to use it. 
 Hmmm... I've tried to imagine what "force copy update always" might mean, but 
can't come up with anything better than "always copy the file even if Cfengine 
thinks it doesn't need copying".  However, that doesn't seem to justify the 
warning that says it is a non-convergent operation and the resulting file may 
never stablise.

Is there anyone who understands this and can give a better description of the 
purpose of this true/false switch?

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