Re: redundancy in description of 'cp -a'

[Jim Meyering]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since option -d of 'cp' includes the function of -P, mentioning the
> latter in the description of option -a is redundant and therefore
> slightly confusing, as the reader tries to figure out what it adds.
>
> -  -a, --archive                same as -dpPR\n\
> +  -a, --archive                same as -dpR\n\

Thank you!  Applied and pushed.

> (To save the reader the looking up of -d, -p and -R, it might be
> useful to add after -dpR that this means --no-dereference
> --preserve=links,mode,ownership,timestamps --resursive.  However,
> that might give a wrong idea about the meaning of -p.)

I agree.
And I prefer not to duplicate things, so I'll leave this as-is.