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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 10897@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:47:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh6i99kk.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nuchddl.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Mon,  27 Feb 2012 09:47:02 +0100")

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> when copying a directory symlink to another directory, the behavior of
> 'cp' is to create a new symlink in this directory:
>
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ mkdir ~/Test
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ mkdir ~/tmp/Test1
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ ln -s ~/tmp/Test1 ~/tmp/foo
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ cp -r ~/tmp/foo ~/Test
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ ls -l ~/Test
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 thierry        thierry  23 2012-02-27 09:08 foo -> /home/thierry/tmp/Test1
>
> It is not what's copy-directory does:
>
> (copy-directory "~/tmp/foo" "~/Test" nil t)
> =>
> thierry@thierry-MM061:~ $ ls -l ~/Test
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x   2 thierry        thierry  4096 2012-02-27 09:11 foo

I'm unable to reproduce the bug using this recipe -- at the end of this,
I just have an empty ~/Test directory.

Which is also different from what cp -r does, but I'm not sure that's a
bug -- when you tell copy-directory to copy a symlink, I think it's
natural to dereference that symlink first?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-25 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27  8:47 bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27  9:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-27  9:30   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 10:32     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-27 15:22       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-09 23:07         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-10  6:08           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03  8:42       ` bug#10897: sending mail via report-emacs-bug Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03  8:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-03  9:29           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 10:04             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 14:29             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 14:59               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 15:05                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 17:08                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 17:20                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-04 15:02                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-05 13:58                         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 14:33         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 12:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-13  2:33   ` bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-13  3:15     ` Glenn Morris
2020-10-13  3:19       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-19 21:47 ` Marco Centurion
2021-08-20  1:08 ` Marco Centurion
2021-08-20  5:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 13:34     ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 13:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 14:58         ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 16:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 17:13             ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 18:48               ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-20 13:44   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-20 14:29     ` Marco Centurion - URI
2021-08-20 14:38       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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