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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 5b69e8ad2..c8d09b4ee 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1185,7 +1185,10 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, } } - if (x->backup_type != no_backups) + if (x->backup_type != no_backups + /* Don't try to back up a destination if the last + component of src_name is "." or "..". */ + && ! dot_or_dotdot (last_component (src_name))) { char *tmp_backup = find_backup_file_name (dst_name, x->backup_type); |