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27.0.50; copy-file no longer copying when second argument is a directory

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From: kramer <at> cogeco.ca (Bryan M. Kramer)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50;
 copy-file no longer copying when second argument is a directory
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:07:43 -0500

copy-file help states if second argument is a directory, it will create
a properly named file in the directory. This is no longer the case in
this version of emacs.


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 11, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
 of 2017-11-14 built on fedora17.home
Repository revision: 13248f7444630508cfc3b78a07e8d96613af11c8
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MATCH
DM /home/bryan/afs/httpdocs /home/bryan/parallel/dm /home/bryan/parallel/dm/private/bin summarize-db-url.php
M1 nil
M2 /private/bin
COPYING /home/bryan/parallel/dm/private/bin/summarize-db-url.php to /home/bryan/afs/httpdocs/private/bin
call-diff-copy-item: Opening output file: Is a directory, /home/bryan/afs/httpdocs/private/bin

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Message #8 received at 29362 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Bryan M. Kramer" <kramer <at> cogeco.ca>
Cc: 29362 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29362: 27.0.50; copy-file no longer copying when second
 argument is a directory
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:40:04 +0000

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Bryan M. Kramer <kramer <at> cogeco.ca> schrieb am So., 19. Nov. 2017 um
22:09 Uhr:

>
> copy-file help states if second argument is a directory, it will create
> a properly named file in the directory. This is no longer the case in
> this version of emacs.
>

This is working as intended, see NEWS:

** Several functions that create or rename files now treat their
destination argument specially only when it is a directory name, i.e.,
when it ends in '/' on GNU and other POSIX-like systems.  When the
destination argument D of one of these functions is an existing
directory and the intent is to act on an entry in that directory, D
should now be a directory name.  For example, (rename-file "e" "f/")
renames to 'f/e'.  Although this formerly happened sometimes even when
D was not a directory name, as in (rename-file "e" "f") where 'f'
happened to be a directory, the old behavior often contradicted the
documentation and had inherent races that led to security holes.  A
call like (rename-file C D) that used the old, undocumented behavior
can be written as (rename-file C (file-name-as-directory D)), a
formulation portable to both older and newer versions of Emacs.
Affected functions include 'add-name-to-file', 'copy-directory',
'copy-file', 'format-write-file', 'gnus-copy-file',
'make-symbolic-link', 'rename-file', 'thumbs-rename-images', and
'write-file'.

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