Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Having a slash at the end of the destination directory *is*
> significant with rsync:
>
> $ touch foo
> $ ls bar
> ls: bar: No such file or directory
> $ rsync foo bar/
> $ ls -al bar
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  3 skangas  wheel   96 Sep 30 15:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 skangas  wheel  128 Sep 30 15:50 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 skangas  wheel    0 Sep 30 15:50 foo

I was thinking of the "rsync -a" thing.  "rsync -a d1 d2" and
"rsync -a d1 d2/" does the same.  (d1 is a directory and d2 doesn't
exist in this scenario.)

(Adding a slash to d1 does change what's happening.)

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