GNU bug report logs - #10897
copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink

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Message #63 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a
 symlink
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:22:32 -0400

tags 10897 confirmed
found 10897 25.1
severity 10897 minor
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Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> when copying a directory symlink to another directory, the behavior of
> 'cp' is to create a new symlink in this directory:
>
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ mkdir ~/Test
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ mkdir ~/tmp/Test1
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ ln -s ~/tmp/Test1 ~/tmp/foo
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ cp -r ~/tmp/foo ~/Test
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ ls -l ~/Test
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 thierry        thierry  23 2012-02-27 09:08 foo -> /home/thierry/tmp/Test1
>
>
> It is not what's copy-directory does:
>
> (copy-directory "~/tmp/foo" "~/Test" nil t)
> =>
> thierry <at> thierry-MM061:~ $ ls -l ~/Test
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x   2 thierry        thierry  4096 2012-02-27 09:11 foo
>
> NOTE:
> I am not sending this bug-report via report-emacs-bug due to its last
> silly modifications.

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