Subject: Re: bug#58721: 28.2; dired with delete-by-moving-to-trash can't trash directory twice

From: Mike Kupfer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 11:18:29 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Looks good, but maybe add to the comment the reason _why_ we don't use
> rename-file for directories.  You explained _what_ we do, but not
> _why_.

Do you mean something like

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Fix cross-filesystem directory trashing (Bug#58721)

* lisp/files.el (move-file-to-trash): When trashing a directory,
copy it into the trash folder and then delete it, rather than
using rename-file.  rename-file can only be used when the
to-be-trashed directory and the trashcan live in the same filesystem;
this approach handles both that case and the different-filesystem case.
----->8----->8-----

?

mike