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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: JeppeTh@users.github.com
Cc: 51357@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51357: 26.3; Recursively copy a directory into a destination where directory already exists no longer works.
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:03:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1ca5mht.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84r1cby7qb.fsf@JTSERVER.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (JeppeTh@users.noreply.github.com's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:24:44 +0200")

JeppeTh@users.noreply.github.com writes:

> In dired-mode when pressing 'C' on a directory to copy it somewhere, it
> now only works in case the directory doesn't already exist. Otherwise it fails
> with file-already-exists error.
> Overwrite mode or not doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
> It seems there's a change in copy-directory where make-directory used to
> be called with parents hardcoded to 't'. Now it's not and it thereby
> fails.

I tried to reproduce this in Emacs 26.3 and failed.  Here's what I
tried:

./src/emacs -Q .

I went to "admin" (a directory) and said:

C //tmp/newdir3 RET yes RET

Then I went to "etc" (another dir) and said:

C //tmp/newdir3 RET yes RET

And I didn't get any errors.

So do you have a step-by-step recipe to reproduce the problem?

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-23 17:24 bug#51357: 26.3; Recursively copy a directory into a destination where directory already exists no longer works JeppeTh--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-23 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 18:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-25  9:58 ` JeppeTh--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-25 13:45   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-25 15:56 ` JeppeTh--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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