Subject: Re: bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if one of files is a dir and other not

From: Philipp Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:43 +0100

* Bernhard Voelker ([email-masked]) [20131029 12:26]:

> hmm, well, could it be that this is because many features have
> been added over the years? ...

Leave alone checks that cp needs to do but dd doesn't.

Philipp