bug#62572: Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2024-01-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 17/12/2023 14:46, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/12/2023 21:46, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 12/15/23 21:13, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:21:06AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Stlll, Pádraig gave a reasonable summary of why the change was made, To clarify my summary a little,

bug#62572: Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2024-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-01-28 05:22, Pádraig Brady wrote: At this stage it seems best for us go back to the original Linux behiavor (use case 3), and to silently deprecate -n in docs to document the portability issues with it. I'm not sure reverting would be best. It would introduce more confusion, and