Pádraig Brady wrote:
I'm still not sure about this new partial mirroring behaviour of
cp -au, but I don't know how to avoid it. The attached patch at least
documents the change.
Thanks. I should have done that.
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention the new mirroring behavior of cp -au
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On 07/31/2011 10:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
I'm still not sure about this new partial mirroring behaviour of
cp -au, but I don't know how to avoid it. The attached patch at least
documents the change.
Thanks. I should have done that.
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
+ cp -au (where --preserve=links is implicit) now replaces possibly newer
s/now replaces/may now replace/ ?
...since whether it replaces them depends on the order
in which readdir processes entries in the containing directory.
I considered that but thought it
