> While investigating merge (a beautiful piece of work, incidentally), I > came across an aspect of its behavior that surprised me: > > When merging directories, it would seem natural to me that copying a > file from one directory to the other should preserve the modification > time on the copy. This would mean using shutil.copy2 instead of > shutil.copy in the copy_selected method--correct? Is there a reason why > this is not being done? The copytree method does use shutil.copy2.
Thanks Eric, I don't know if you're talking about the code or the UI, but thanks for the compliment :) I can't think of a reason not to use copy2 so I've changed dirdiff to use that instead. Stephen. _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
