On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:12:35PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Now I see that cp refuses to overwrite a file with any directory,
> empty or not.
Yeah. I have been considering making rsync behave that way. My only
hesitation was just how long rsync has been allowing this to occur.
However, I d
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:45 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:12:07PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > I have redone get_local_name again (patch attached), this time to
> > enable rsync to remove a file to make way for a destination directory;
>
> I
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:12:07PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> I have redone get_local_name again (patch attached), this time to
> enable rsync to remove a file to make way for a destination directory;
I don't wish to do this, as this is not how cp behaves and I want to
keep the b
Wayne,
I have redone get_local_name again (patch attached), this time to enable
rsync to remove a file to make way for a destination directory; this
resolves the "surprise" noted in David Tonhofer's diagram 2. I also
made it obey --keep-dirlinks when looking for a destination dir
