GNU bug report logs - #28529
26.0.60; Dired recursive copy fails

Previous Next

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 28529 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 28529 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 26.0.60; Dired recursive copy fails
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:44:28 +0100

* Create directories ./x/, ./x/a/ and ./y/
* Run "emacs -Q ."
* In Dired, use C (dired-do-copy) to copy x/ into y/

Expected: succeeds
Actual: fails with error:
Copy ‘c:/temp/test/x’ to ‘c:/temp/test/y/x’ failed:
(file-already-exists File exists c:/temp/test/y/x)

In GNU Emacs 26.0.60 (build 3, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2017-09-20 built on XXX
Repository revision: 26a27b6d095344cceb7d9477d9d8fdbe378a2b75
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Copy ‘c:/temp/test/x’ to ‘c:/temp/test/y/x’ failed:
(file-already-exists File exists c:/temp/test/y/x)


Configured using:
 'configure --config-cache --with-modules --without-pop 'CFLAGS=-O3
 -ggdb3''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENG
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message subr-x puny seq byte-opt gv
bytecomp byte-compile cconv format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec
password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs
mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils
mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mail-utils dired-aux cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs elec-pair
time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win
w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook
help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 99152 6641)
 (symbols 56 20218 1)
 (miscs 48 47 108)
 (strings 32 29840 1501)
 (string-bytes 1 754128)
 (vectors 16 14980)
 (vector-slots 8 489750 6675)
 (floats 8 50 66)
 (intervals 56 297 35)
 (buffers 992 13))

Message #8 received at 28529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28529: 26.0.60; Dired recursive copy fails
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:54:52 +0900

Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com> writes:

> * Create directories ./x/, ./x/a/ and ./y/
> * Run "emacs -Q ."
> * In Dired, use C (dired-do-copy) to copy x/ into y/
>
> Expected: succeeds
> Actual: fails with error:
> Copy ‘c:/temp/test/x’ to ‘c:/temp/test/y/x’ failed:
> (file-already-exists File exists c:/temp/test/y/x)
Thank you.
This is same as bug#28520.  It has being fixed in emacs-26 branch; the
fix will be merged into master branch soon.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.