bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> Copying with symlinks dereferenced is almost always the case for me,
> because of the version control system we use. It is a central VCS. So
> we need to check out the files before editing them. In checked-in
> state, all files are just symlinks to the physical versions in a
> central cache server. So almost always "cp -L" is what I want to do
> when copying files from one place to another without checking them
> out. My cp is aliased to "cp -L".

Thanks; I've now applied this patch to Emacs 28, since Eli said:

> That was my first thought as well, but we use the same approach as
> Kaushal proposed for the equivalent of the -p switch to 'cp'.

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