GNU bug report logs - #52115
Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists

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From: Warren Parad <wparad <at> gmail.com>
To: 52115 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:53:49 +0100

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It is too frequent a problem to know which is the correct order of TARGET
and LINK_NAME.

Since the command already believes that it can't create a link to a file
which already exists (and for hard links that the TARGET must also exist),
instead of complaining, the command should just switch the order of the
parameters.

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