Re: copy2 vs copy in copy_selected

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> While investigating merge (a beautiful piece of work, incidentally), I 
> came across an aspect of its behavior that surprised me:
> 
> When merging directories, it would seem natural to me that copying a 
> file from one directory to the other should preserve the modification 
> time on the copy.  This would mean using shutil.copy2 instead of 
> shutil.copy in the copy_selected method--correct? Is there a reason why 
> this is not being done?  The copytree method does use shutil.copy2.

Thanks Eric, 

I don't know if you're talking about the code or the UI, but
thanks for the compliment :)

I can't think of a reason not to use copy2 so I've changed dirdiff
to use that instead.

Stephen.