From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:20:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1814
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4b7d663c08e01ceb08319c1c0ba63282cbc3039;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
file system time stamp resolution into account.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5eb66459fe..c36a67b81b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** New features
 
+  cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now don't bother to update the
+  destination if the resulting time stamp would be no newer than the
+  preexisting time stamp.  This saves work in the common case when
+  copying or moving multiple times to the same destination in a file
+  system with a coarse time stamp resolution.
+
   dd has new conversions for the conv= option:
 
     nocreat   do not create the output file