From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "tramp-devel@gnu.org" <tramp-devel@gnu.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tramp and recursive file operations
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:53:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nq7hvfkt4u.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5to2ox5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:56:41 +0200")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Maybe the best option is to rename delete-directory to
> delete-directory-internal and then implement a new delete-directory in
> files.el. using it.
Done.
>> So we go with copy-directory? Just DIRNAME and NEWNAME as parameters, or
>> the other ones from copy-file as well?
>
> Whenever I copy a directory, I always use "cp -a", so I'd be tempted to
> say that additional args aren't needed, but that the behavior should
> preserve as much as we can (symlinks, gid, mtime, you name it).
>
>> I guess that we dont't need OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS, because if directory
>> NEWNAME already exists, we create a subdirectory.
>
> I'd tend to disagree here: this kind of behavior is very handy
> interactively, but not when called from Lisp code, where you might
> prefer an error (at which point you can then choose to call
> copy-directory again to the subdirectory, or you may prefer to overlay
> the copy on top of the existing tree, tho we don't have any code that
> does it for us yet).
OK, I'll add it next days.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-29 14:39 Tramp and recursive file operations Michael Albinus
2009-09-29 17:49 ` joakim
2009-09-29 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 8:06 ` Michael Albinus
2009-09-30 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 14:07 ` Michael Albinus
2009-09-30 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-01 15:53 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2009-09-30 15:52 ` yary
2009-10-02 5:10 ` Michael Albinus
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