bug#20849: documentation: difference between empty and non-empty dirs with "mv --no-target-directory"

[Assaf Gordon]

close 20849
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 27/06/15 09:30 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 19/06/15 11:23, Alexey Salmin wrote:
> > [....]
> > At the moment it explains "-T" as "Do not treat the last operand
> > specially when it is a directory or a symbolic link to a directory."
> > [1] This sort of contradicts the fact that an empty directory (A) is
> > treated specially compared to an empty file (C). And a difference
> > between (A) and (B) is not mentioned at all.
>
> The wording is intended to cater for mv and cp etc.
> cp doesn't care about empty dirs for example.
> TBH I think the behavior is not surprising, and splitting
> out the docs might only confuse things.
> If you can come up with a concise patch we'll consider it.

With no further comments in 3 years, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread
(and patches are welcomed).

-assaf