bug#47058: 28.0.50; Dired Z: insert-directory: Reading directory: No such file or directory, CrossLine_linux_x86

[Gregory Heytings]

> If you move a directory over another by renaming, the previous directory 
> is gone, and replaced by the one you moved in its place, right?  I'm not 
> talking about what GNU mv does, I'm talking about what Emacs will do 
> when renaming a directory into another one.

Sorry, I don't understand your question.  With the patch, if the output 
directory already exists, an "File already exists" is displayed, as I 
think should be the case.

I attach a slightly improved version, in which a tar file containing a 
single regular file is uncompressed into a directory.

Uncompress-tar-files-in-a-DWIMish-way.patch
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