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Re: Re: cURL TODO : 15.3 prevent file overwriting

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:15:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Deepak Singh wrote:

> My intention for providing a short option was to cover all combinations in
> which (-o and -O) options are used.

I agree with Dan that --no-clobber is probably not going to be such a commonly
used option that we should spend a short option for it.

> I will provide only long option --clobber whose false value i.e.
> (--no-clobber) will be useful for us to prevent file overwriting when used
> with (-o and -O) options.

> Please share your views, I will create a patch and share it once confirmed.

Sounds great to me!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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Received on 2014-05-28