Pádraig Brady wrote:
Well => is for hardlinks, and both -> and => were used
to distinguish the operations (in v5.92-191-g24ce72f)
As I understand it, part of the motivation is consistency with 'ls':
$ ln -sv a b
'b' -> 'a'
$ ls -l b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 1 Jun 4 21:59 b -> a
With that in mind, if we were to change the format of 'ln' so that the order was
the same as the command line, presumably it would look like this:
$ ln -sv a b
'a' <- 'b'
$ ln -v c d
'c' <= 'd'
An advantage of this format (over what we're using) is that it's easier to
distinguish 'cp -v' from 'ln -v' output in a log. I'm not sure that's enough
advantage to change, though. Besides, 'cp -v' vs 'mv -v' output is already
ambiguous.
