bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500
> Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Kaushal Modi wrote:
> 
> > +(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil
> > +  "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them.
> 
> I can't imagine anyone needing this as an option they can set for all
> future uses. Surely what someone might need is a way to make one
> specific copy command dereference? As a prefix argument or a separate
> command, or whatever.

That was my first thought as well, but we use the same approach as
Kaushal proposed for the equivalent of the -p switch to 'cp'.