GNU bug report logs - #47058
28.0.50; Dired Z: insert-directory: Reading directory: No such file or directory, CrossLine_linux_x86

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mvar.40k <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, mcenturion <at> fing.edu.uy, arthur.miller <at> live.com, 47058 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47058: 28.0.50; Dired Z: insert-directory: Reading directory: No such file or directory, CrossLine_linux_x86
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 07:15:36 +0000

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>
> If you move a directory over another by renaming, the previous directory 
> is gone, and replaced by the one you moved in its place, right?  I'm not 
> talking about what GNU mv does, I'm talking about what Emacs will do 
> when renaming a directory into another one.
>

Sorry, I don't understand your question.  With the patch, if the output 
directory already exists, an "File already exists" is displayed, as I 
think should be the case.

I attach a slightly improved version, in which a tar file containing a 
single regular file is uncompressed into a directory.

[Uncompress-tar-files-in-a-DWIMish-way.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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