On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:38:29PM -0400, Karl Wieman wrote:
> If I remove a directory 'foo' and create a file foo, and then do a resync from a
>remote server
>
> with the -u flag, the file will be replaced by the directory, even though
>
> the file is newer than the directory. Is this a bug, or a feature?
Yes, both. You have munged the destination so that -u cannot
reasonably cope with it. As it is now you complain that it
creates the directory. Change it and someone else will
complain that it skipped a whole directory. There is no
right action in such a case.
Perhaps you need unison?
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