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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:46:50 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp utils.c
Message-ID:  <44EF459A.2050509@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200608250855.44332.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200608250942.k7P9gGlL038381@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608250855.44332.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:

>On Friday 25 August 2006 05:42, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>  
>
>>ru          2006-08-25 09:42:16 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    bin/cp               utils.c 
>>  Log:
>>  Remove a stray -a option that probably sneaked in from julian's
>>  attempt to enter append mode twice in vi(1).  :-)
>>    
>>
>
>The original -l patch included a -a shortcut to be compatible with gcp
>which is probably where this came from.
>
>  
>

yep, when I removed the -a option I missed that one.

not sayign -a is bad (if it exists elsewhere there is an argument for 
having it)
but one functional change at a time, and -a can be achieved by other flags.




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