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24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:38:14 -0500

>>> 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.

I don't understand why you think that's a problem.


        Stefan

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