From a320eee15855e557ce07c3d47cb262484b139846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:40:10 +0000
Subject: (do_link): Don't require --force when target exists and using
 --backup.  This changes makes ln consistent with cp and mv in this respect. 
 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.

---
 src/ln.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/ln.c')

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index b7a5208a9..6078f48d0 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
 	  if (!yesno ())
 	    return 0;
 	}
-      else if (!remove_existing_files)
+      else if (!remove_existing_files && backup_type == none)
 	{
 	  error (0, 0, _("%s: File exists"), dest);
 	  return 1;
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