also sprach Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.18.1456 +0100]:
> Your example tried to move a nonempty directory to a new place,
> where the new place is already occupied by a nonempty directory.
> mv has never been able to do that.

Ok. Right. And that's actually how I came upon this bug, because
I was trying to form a case to support it, so if you move
a directory a/ to foo/, and foo/a/ exists, then mv should just move
a/* to foo/a/ and rmdir a afterwards...

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