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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-03-03 22:30:13 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-03-03 22:30:13 +0000
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+2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
+ for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
+ cp -r behavior.
+
+ * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
+ Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
+ equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
+ symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
+ links unless you also specify -P.
+
2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r