Re: [PATCH] install-sh: Add a new -B option to backup files being overwritten

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Karl,

>      https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2018-03/msg00004.html
>      Add a new "-B" option to request saving of the original file when
>      install-sh is overwriting an existing file.
> 
> I just pushed this one too, but I changed the option from -B to -S,
> to match the option letter in cp, mv, etc.
> 
> Thanks for all the changes.

Many thanks for having accepted these changes.  I hope other projects 
will benefit of these features.
I'll integrate this new upstream install-sh version (with -p and -S) 
into our build system.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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