[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#315266: Can override existing folders and destroy their contents

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-06-21 18:26:29 +0300 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> Package: gworkspace.app
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Tags: forwarded
> 
> [If you reply, please keep the CC to nnn@bugs.debian.org]
> 
> Suppose that I am moving a folder ~/foo inside a a folder ~/bar and there is 
> also a folder ~/bar/foo.  Then GWorkspace shows me the following dialog:
> 
> Some items have the same name; do you want to replace them?
> <Only older> <Cancel> <<OK>>
> 
> If I answer OK then the folder ~/bar/foo and its contents will be completely 
> destroyed and replaced by ~/foo.
> 
> The expected behaviour is to inform me that there are folders with same name 
> and propose me the following options:
> 
> 1. Cancel the operation
> 2. Destroy the target folder and replace it by the source (the current 
> behaviour)
> 3. Merge both folders, i.e. copy the contents of ~/foo inside ~/bar/foo
> 
> Anton Zinoviev

Please, can somebody tell me what OS X does in this case? (I think that the Finder on my iMac is broken because copying "foo" in "bar" containg a "foo" causes a crash)