Re: gnome_vfs_xfer change, please test

[Matt Jones <mattharrison sbcglobal net>]

Is there any chance gnome_vfs_xfer will ever make it into the pygtk
bindings? This seems to be a very central aspect of the vfs api (without
it you end up with big while( ) loops all over the place).

-- Matt Jones

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:06 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I've just commited some changes to make gnome_vfs_xfer (this is whats
> used when nautilus makes copies and moves stuff) so that when a folder
> that gets copied exists in the target we merge the two trees,
> overwriting only files that actually conflict, instead of just removing
> the whole target directory like we used to do.
> 
> This is a very central piece of code, and bugs in it is likely to loose
> data for users. So, please, could as many people as possible try to
> pound on this in various ways using nautilus and try to find cases where
> it breaks or does unexpected things.
> 
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