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Clarify cp documentation behaviour with trailing "/."

Issue #30082 demonstrated that their is possible confusion with the "/."
where the tailing "." can appear to be merely punctuation within the
document rather than a highly pertinent part of `SRC_PATH`.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@docker.com>
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Ian Campbell 2017-01-13 13:54:44 +00:00
parent 0b09d6bfa7
commit fca6cda4b0
2 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ argument of `DEST_PATH`, the behavior is as follows:
- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a file
- Error condition: cannot copy a directory to a file
- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a directory
- `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.`
- `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_)
- the source directory is copied into this directory
- `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.`
- `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_)
- the *content* of the source directory is copied into this
directory

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@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ argument of `DEST_PATH`, the behavior is as follows:
- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a file
- Error condition: cannot copy a directory to a file
- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a directory
- `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.`
- `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_)
- the source directory is copied into this directory
- `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.`
- `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_)
- the *content* of the source directory is copied into this
directory