From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:48:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change
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mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7ec20085f..8a9e09eb4f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can
   overwrite a simultaneously-created B.  This bug fix requires
   platform support for the renameat2 or renameatx_np syscalls, found
-  in recent Linux and macOS kernels.
+  in recent Linux and macOS kernels.  As a side effect, ‘mv -n A A’
+  now silently does nothing if A exists.
   [bug introduced with coreutils-7.1]
 
   'cp -n -u' and 'mv -n -u' now consistently ignore the -u option.