Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
destination instead of copying the file contents.
Patch by Jonathan Niehof and Hynek Schlawack.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 12f4b49..4a7dd11 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@
George Neville-Neil
Johannes Nicolai
Samuel Nicolary
+Jonathan Niehof
Gustavo Niemeyer
Oscar Nierstrasz
Hrvoje Niksic
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 47fc5e9..274465a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -422,6 +422,11 @@
Library
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+- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
+ and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
+ destination instead of copying the file contents. Patch by Jonathan Niehof
+ and Hynek Schlawack.
+
- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.