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bug #64646: Remove "conflict" between --no-overwrite-dir and either --keep-old-files or --skip-old-files

Submitter:  Brent Spillner <spillner>
Submitted:  Sun 10 Sep 2023 02:20:04 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Sun 10 Sep 2023 02:20:04 AM UTC, original submission:  

There's no reason to report --no-overwrite-dir as conflicting with either --keep-old-files or --skip-old-files.  If any of these three options is passed, then the metadata for pre-existing directories will not be updated.  (--keep-old-files and --skip-old-files do of course still conflict with each other.)

The attached patch adds logic to effectively silently ignore --no-overwrite-dir whenever either --keep-old-files or --skip-old-files is passed.

Brent Spillner <spillner>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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file #55124:  intelligent-no-overwrite-dir-option-combining.patch added by spillner (951B - text/x-patch - Patch applies against origin/master as of commit 1cdad4cc280d334be41e42b989f48c380a24a667)

 

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    2023-09-10 spillner Attached File- Added intelligent-no-overwrite-dir-option-combining.patch, #55124

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