GNU bug report logs - #11809
document "So how do we just simply make a backup file?"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: jim <at> meyering.net
Cc: 11809 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11809: document "So how do we just simply make a backup file?"
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:11:45 +0800

JM> I deliberately restricted the "make backup only" functionality to the
JM> very limited case that is documented.
Well you had better explicitly document that it does not work with
all forms in the cp SYNOPSIS, else people will think it is broken...
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