Re: [Libguestfs] RFC: copy-attributes command

Richard W.M. Jones
2014-01-07T22:54:07Z

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:04:36PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> - Should it default to copying attributes?
>
> The common use case (for virt-edit) is: "I want this other file which
> is identical to this original file, except in name and content".  That
> is (I think) an argument for copying everything by default.

Also there's no reason we can't have another bool optarg
to select whether the other bool optargs should default to
true or false ...

Rich.

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