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Use `fs.copyFile` where applicable

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fs.copyFile has landed with Node.js 8.5.0. You should consider using it for copying files when/where applicable.

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Created 6 years ago
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RyanZimcommented, Nov 7, 2017

@benjamingr Thanks for bringing this up. Man, I’m so happy to have this in core. 🎉

One question I have: How does copyFile handle symlinks?

Todo list:

I need to get on top of things and get this promisified in https://github.com/normalize/mz; our fs promisify implementation is a fork of mz and I like to port changes back to them. Done: https://github.com/normalize/mz/pull/58
We need to update our fs promisification to mirror the changes on mz. Done: https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra/pull/491
We need to implement this in copy & copySync, still falling back to our methods in older envs. @manidlou Let’s do this after your changes are merged. This should definitely be semver-major; there will probably be os-specific stuff to work-around.

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manidloucommented, Sep 13, 2017

One question I have: How does copyFile handle symlinks?

@RyanZim I tested when src is a symlink, and copyFile() creates a regular file for dest.

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