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doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories
authorBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:30:14 +0000 (23:30 +0100)
committerBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:30:14 +0000 (23:30 +0100)
commit7c3f05cf6ccf4d6cad71f93f5b7dbef2d4b7ef78
treecfc0ed5d1adf0b9fa61ec7000df14bf0f427e794
parentf7ab20cd606fe6f66028a382d1b5736c4fea9d15
doc: clarify behaviour of mv for existing target directories

* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Add a sentence to clarify that
mv(1) will only replace empty directories in the target, and fail with
a diagnostic otherwise.  Discussed at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-12/msg00000.html
doc/coreutils.texi