Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:16:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote:
>> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade
>> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy
>> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory.  Is there a way
>> >to just force the rename?  what's the benefit of the copy over the
>> >rename?
>>
>> I just tried this.  An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without
>> copying.
>>
>> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details.
>
>I tried this again and it started to do a copy...
>
>then I looked around my system and found another cygwin window
>opened to a directory within the directory that I was trying to
>move.

Ok.  The official answer to this problem is "Don't do that."

cgf

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