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

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:59:36 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Because if we don't do that, we have to create new directory Test1 and
>> then test if Test1 is a subdir of Test.
>
> No we don't have to do that.  We can do the extra work in copy-directory
> (so we call file-equal-p on "~/test" rather than on "~/test/test1" when
> "~/test/test1" doesn't exist yet).
If you don't create test1, you will never have a value of
file-attributes for it, and file-directory-p will return always nil on
test1.

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