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From: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 28483-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28483: 26.0.50; copy-directory does not create directories
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 16:12:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHyO48xA29T1n47q89Li+ukGnuNGMWTNgCDNK7Xd+dz9wap=Eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <972c8b3c-f72d-d447-78b3-cc7fcf6234e5@cs.ucla.edu>

On September 17, 2017 at 1:40:50 PM, Paul Eggert
(eggert@cs.ucla.edu(mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu)) wrote:

> The recent security patch to copy-directory had the unintended side effect of
> refusing to make the destination directory when COPY-CONTENTS is non-nil and
> when the destination is a directory name. Sorry about that. I installed a patch
> in the emacs-26 branch, here:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-26&id=37b5e661d298cbfe51422cd515b6696a1cdaa868
>
> Please give it a try. As I think it fixes the bug, I'm boldly closing this bug
> report; we can reopen it if I'm wrong.

That fixed it for me. Thank you!

And thanks for pointing out the emacs-26 branch, that’s exciting. Do
fixes not typically get merged back into master until after the
release?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-17 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-17 19:10 bug#28483: 26.0.50; copy-directory does not create directories Aaron Jensen
2017-09-17 19:15 ` bug#28483: [PATCH] Fix copy-directory creating missing directory Aaron Jensen
2017-09-17 19:48   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-17 20:19     ` Aaron Jensen
2017-09-18 17:40       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-17 19:20 ` bug#28483: 26.0.50; copy-directory does not create directories Aaron Jensen
2017-09-17 20:40   ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-17 23:12     ` Aaron Jensen [this message]
2017-09-17 23:52       ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-20 11:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 18:59       ` bug#28520: " Paul Eggert
2017-09-20 19:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 23:04           ` Adam Plaice

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