From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:55:48 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: cp: fix bug with fine-grained src to nearby coarse-grained dest
X-Git-Tag: v8.8~48
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5a25a996da0ed80025e6ed94ca7fe4347704864;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

cp: fix bug with fine-grained src to nearby coarse-grained dest

The actual fix is in gnulib's lib/utimecmp.c.
* NEWS: Document fix.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 79484c18b7..c3110a37f1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source
+  has finer-grained time stamps than the destination.
+
   od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and
   it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases.