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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-01-09 16:12:59 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-01-09 16:12:59 +0000
commit8740ecf8c0698750b9eaf4f3d62eaecfdfbb5fd8 (patch)
tree6fb905815758bf528350e87bb27b7c751ab770bf
parente92e87181b06d4de6a978a8f8fdea70639c05348 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--src/copy.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 5fd5699f5..734271b4f 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1180,8 +1180,11 @@ copy (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
assert (valid_options (options));
- /* Record the file names: they're used in case of error,
- when copying a directory into itself. */
+ /* Record the file names: they're used in case of error, when copying
+ a directory into itself. I don't like to make these tools do *any*
+ extra work in the common case when that work is solely to handle
+ exceptional cases, but in this case, I don't see a way to derive the
+ top level source and destination directory names where they're used. */
top_level_src_path = src_path;
top_level_dst_path = dst_path;