Subject: bug#28341: RFE: focusing on source vs. symptoms (reducing duplicate error ouput)

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:38:25 -0700

L A Walsh wrote:
> If Target file system doesn't support preserving permissions,
> it would be more useful to issue 1 error message for the
> _source_ of the problem (the directory)

That would be more useful in some circumstances. However, I expect some people 
are used to the longstanding behavior, which is more in line with what POSIX 
requires. We could add an option to supress chatter, though.