Hello,
Trying to copy the contents of a local directory to a remote one (trying
to get behavior like "scp -r src/* user@host:dest/") , I noticed that
the "copy-contents" flag is (silently?) ignored when the destination is
remote. So the directory, rather than its contents is copied to the
destination. To reproduce:

;; terminal:
;; [kmahan@lemur ~]$ mkdir /tmp/source /tmp/dest-local /tmp/dest-remote
;; [kmahan@lemur ~]$ touch /tmp/source/file

(copy-directory "/tmp/source" "/tmp/dest-local" nil nil t)
(copy-directory "/tmp/source" "/kmahan@localhost:/tmp/dest-remote" nil nil
t)

;; terminal:
;; [kmahan@lemur ~]$ ls /tmp/dest-local/
;; file
;; [kmahan@lemur ~]$ ls /tmp/dest-remote/
;; source/

Thanks :)


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.2)
 of 2013-08-06 on -mnt-storage-buildroots-staging-x86_64-eric
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<return> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-j C-y <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> C-k C-k ; ; SPC <left> <down> <left>
<left> ; ; SPC <left> <down> <left> <left> ; ; SPC
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<return>

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Tramp: Opening connection for kmahan@localhost using scpc...done
nil
byte-code: End of buffer [2 times]

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Quit
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