Reincluding bug report. also sprach Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.18.2109 +0100]: > > But whatever, as you said, this discussion is pointless. > > Is it, really? Not to me.
Cool. Really. I guess I am still a little pissed off about #377600 and kinda think that GNU utility == GNU utility right now. That's wrong, I know. > With each message, you've let slip one more piece of > the justification for your initial request. I have tendonitis and try not to type too much. :) And yes, I was already assuming noone would listen before I filed the bug. 12:48:58 < madduck> but given the latest 'diff -R' experience, i am not even going to bother filing a bug against the GNU utils > What's your application? > I.e., why do you care so much about inode changes? Actually, I don't. I really just want to be able to say mv ~/ftp/incoming/* /srv/data_store and have it do what I suggest on the semantic level. Why should I care that there are directories it cannot "overwrite"? What does it mean anyway to overwrite a directory? There is an -i option, but I am *not* specifying it. To the user, a directory is not data, it's organisation. So if a users says mv stuff ~ s/he means, let's move 'stuff' to 'home'. If 'stuff' provides 'foo' and I already have a collection of 'foo' at 'home', well, I'd want to have the new foo next to the old foo, right? Sure, some users will say: so I brought home some foo and I already had some foo, and the new foo isn't really the same category as the old foo, in which case mv would make a mess. Something makes me want to say that if anyone uses filesystem-modifying * in a command, s/he better know what s/he is doing, but I guess a flag to enable the new behaviour (for which I am asking) would be okay as well. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system "if one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." -- oscar wilde
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