#12183: merge with 3.2.

3083c888 · Ezio Melotti · 88bf51ba · ef5c7161 · 3083c888
Commit 3083c888 authored Aug 02, 2011 by Ezio Melotti
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@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ Directory and files operations
   :func:`copy2`.

   If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
-   symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the
-   linked files are copied to the new tree.
+   symbolic links in the new tree, but the metadata of the original links is NOT
+   copied; if false or omitted, the contents and metadata of the linked files
+   are copied to the new tree.

   When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
   exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in