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bug#29961: [PATCH] mv -n: do not overwrite the destination


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#29961: [PATCH] mv -n: do not overwrite the destination
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:10:01 -0800
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Bernhard Voelker wrote:
as we're changing the
behavior for some cases - it would be good to also add some tests

That would make sense if the edge-case behavior was documented and the change is something that users could rely on. But the behavior is not documented, and I'm not sure we want to promise that the behavior won't change back. (Maybe I'm being too cautious?)





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