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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-09-05 13:07:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-09-05 13:07:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 6db8f6a410d99e9a66847530bb520b329d2f1a9e (patch) | |
| tree | fd0fbe8d6b37a00de6a9d0cfe1e2f0d4aa920e69 /Help | |
| parent | ac4d6d4a9d9b81773e61c643169cb2afe1bab644 (diff) | |
| parent | 3beb2c440badc293c7cf783abe0f1f5e9fb6f497 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-remove_directory-symlink'
3beb2c440b cmake: Document -E remove_directory symlink behavior
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !3784
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake.1.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/remove_directory-symlink.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst index 0645e41..2576cde 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst @@ -536,7 +536,8 @@ Available commands are: ``remove_directory <dir>...`` Remove ``<dir>`` directories and their contents. If a directory does - not exist it will be silently ignored. + not exist it will be silently ignored. If ``<dir>`` is a symlink to + a directory, just the symlink will be removed. ``rename <oldname> <newname>`` Rename a file or directory (on one volume). If file with the ``<newname>`` name diff --git a/Help/release/dev/remove_directory-symlink.rst b/Help/release/dev/remove_directory-symlink.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0896388 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/remove_directory-symlink.rst @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +remove_directory-symlink +------------------------ + +* The :manual:`cmake(1)` ``-E remove_directory`` command-line tool, + when given the path to a symlink to a directory, now removes just + the symlink. It no longer removes content of the linked directory. |