GNU bug report logs - #28483
26.0.50; copy-directory does not create directories

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 28483-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 28483-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 26.0.50; copy-directory does not create directories
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 16:12:21 -0700

On September 17, 2017 at 1:40:50 PM, Paul Eggert
(eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu(mailto:eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu)) wrote:

> The recent security patch to copy-directory had the unintended side effect of
> refusing to make the destination directory when COPY-CONTENTS is non-nil and
> when the destination is a directory name. Sorry about that. I installed a patch
> in the emacs-26 branch, here:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-26&id=37b5e661d298cbfe51422cd515b6696a1cdaa868
>
> Please give it a try. As I think it fixes the bug, I'm boldly closing this bug
> report; we can reopen it if I'm wrong.

That fixed it for me. Thank you!

And thanks for pointing out the emacs-26 branch, that’s exciting. Do
fixes not typically get merged back into master until after the
release?
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