Older directory overwrites newer file with -u flag

Karl Wieman kwieman at blackrock.com
Tue Oct 15 19:39:00 EST 2002


If I remove a directory 'foo' and create a file foo, and then do a resync from a remote server

with the -u flag, the file will be replaced by the directory, even though

the file is newer than the directory.  Is this a bug, or a feature?

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