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diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index eb369b243e650f74dad2ed7103494499804f5835..16493ab4ca5b8b0938f890cf313f5b6d301bfc55 100644 (file)
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1408,6 +1408,8 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 
       if (x->recursive && x->copy_as_regular)
        {
+         /* Warn that applying `cp -r' to symlinks is not portable,
+            but go ahead and preserve the symlink.  */
          error (0, 0, _("%s: WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic\
  links is not portable"), quote (src_path));
        }