Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 23:14:03 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Str|mberg on Sat, 9 Jun 2001 19:29:32 +0200 (MEST))
Subject: Re: .files on servers are perceived as readonly
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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 19:29:32 +0200 (MEST)
> 
> According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > > 2. Why it annoys me immensly is that I routinely do "cp -a
> > > v:/my/cvs/tree/of/djgpp/src/* /djgpp/src.compiling/" while
> > > developing. And now I get a ton of warnings from cp because the copy
> > > made the previous run of cp is set to readonly.
> > 
> > When you copy directory trees, you should use "cp -rf".  Otherwise,
> > every write-protected file will trigger a prompt.
> 
> Not good in this case because then the whole src.compiling tree would
> be recompiled even if I'd changed no or only a few files. I need the
> flag -p (implied by -a) to preserve the times of the files.

Sure, just use "cp -prf".