Merge topic 'doc-remove_directory-symlink'

3beb2c440b cmake: Document -E remove_directory symlink behavior

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !3784
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Brad King
2019-09-05 13:07:22 +00:00
committed by Kitware Robot
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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``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

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remove_directory-symlink
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* 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.