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