On 2014-05-26 09:59:04 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Yes we shouldn't assume users would know that -H and -L would override -P. > Also --link is recently wound up in this. Hence it's not easy to describe.
It could be described like in the info file. > We could accurately describe using something like the following, but given > that the info docs are correct and complete here Not all users use the info docs (I find man / --help easier to use). > and that most users use -a anyway which already explicitly considers > --no-dereference, That's the point of this bug report: I usually use -a, which implies --no-dereference, so that I thought that -R alone would avoid this --no-dereference, but this is not the way cp behaves. > it's probably best to err on the side of conciseness in the > man/--help and let users refer to info for complete docs. That would just be one sentence below the list of options (a bit like in the info doc). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
