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@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
"mv -T --verbose --backup=t A B" now prints the " (backup: B.~1~)"
suffix when A and B are directories as well as when they are not.
+ mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments
+ where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in
+ a slash and doesn't exist. E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B,
+ now succeeds, once more. This bug was introduced in coreutils-5.3.0.
+
* Major changes in release 6.1 (2006-08-19) [unstable]