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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 16246d08f..e4121a4d9 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ Major changes in release 3.9: * ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems * cp, mkdir, and rmdir long option --path renamed to --parents; --path will still work for a while +* cp, ln, and mv convert `cp A B/' to cp A B/A when A is not a directory. + This change affects only the two-argument form of the commands. It makes + such commands fail when the target has a trailing slash but is not a + directory or symlink to a directory and the source is not a directory. + They used to succeed, ignoring the implicitly contradictory trailing slash. Major changes in release 3.8: * install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors |