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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2011-07-31 09:36:41 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2011-07-31 13:08:47 +0100
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doc: mention the new mirroring behavior of cp -au
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior. * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Likewise.
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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages,
when -v or -c specified.
+ cp -au (where --preserve=links is implicit) may now replace newer
+ files in the destination, to mirror hard links from the source.
+
** New features
md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the