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RFC: cp --no-preserve=contents

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-coreutils <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RFC: cp --no-preserve=contents
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:55:32 -0600

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cp --attributes-only is great for preserving all metadata attributes
without corrupting contents, but what if I want to preserve only some of
the metadata (for example, copying SELinux context but _not_ timestamps
or content)?  It seems like --attributes-only would be a great synonym
for '--preserve=all  --no-preserve=contents', and that by adding the
'contents' category to --preserve (and defaulting it to on unless turned
off explicitly), that you expose finer-grained tuning to what metadata
gets copied.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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