Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:24:42 +0100

Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Many examples given here, so if everybody is ok with The function given
>> by Drew, we could commit the attached patch to fix this bug:
> Note also that the bug is still here with this code 
> when copying on same system "/sudo::/foo" to "/foo"

One could also add it to Tramp for Emacs 24.1. But this sounds like a
new feature to me, and I would like to postpone it to Emacs 24.2. There
must be robust testing, if we start to handle such use cases.

Best regards, Michael.