[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2329: cp -r stops with an exception

[Tahoe-LAFS]

#2329: cp -r stops with an exception
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     Reporter:  zooko    |      Owner:  warner
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  1.10.1
    Component:  code-    |    Version:  1.10.0
  frontend-cli           |   Keywords:  regression tahoe-cp review-needed
   Resolution:           |  easy release-blocker
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by nejucomo):

 I'm convinced globbing is too complicated if it evolves towards emulating
 bash.  The key feature I was interested in comment:16 was an explicit
 consistent way to disambiguate between container and contents.

 So this could also be a ``--contents`` flag, or another non-globby-looking
 symbol, such as the presence of a trailing slash (which I believe warner
 suggested elsewhere).

 Examples:

 * tahoe cp -r "$X" dest/ # Copy the bag $X to dest/$NAME if $X has a name,
 otherwise fail with an error.
 * tahoe cp -r "$X/" dest/ # Copy the contents of $X into ./dest (the name
 of $X is irrelevant).

 Note that this can be orthogonal to whether or not dest/ exists.

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2329#comment:19>
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