Package: coreutils
Severity: wishlist
It would be desireable for users who have defined something like `alias
cp='cp --reflink=auto'` to be able to override this per call (without
requiring to fall back to /bin/cp, which is just a workaround imho, and
which would override possible other options set by the alias).
I thus propose to add an option `--reflink=never`. (And to implement it
in a way that, in a call such as `cp --reflink --reflink=never`, the
latter overrides the former.)
See also #804338 ("provide a clean way for optional global cp
--reflink=auto"). Once that is implemented, a fix to this bug here would
become even more important, as the `/bin/ls` workaround would not work
anymore.
Thanks!
Marian
