aspiers / aspiers/stow

Restow does not actually write between removing and creating

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Description

Or at least that's what I suspect because after using stow with `-R` the last modified date of the links does not change. Whereas if I run a -D and an -S after eachother it does (because then it really removes and adds it back).

And because the help page claims -R is like an -S after a -D but this proves otherwise

The only other flags I'm using is -d and -t

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Research direction

Reproduce the reported behavior with stow -R using the -d and -t options, then compare it with separate -D and -S runs. Trace the restow operation and its help text to determine whether links are actually removed and recreated; done means -R matches the documented remove-then-install behavior and link modification times change accordingly.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
perl
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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