*** Jan Niklas Böhm [2023-10-05 16:28]:
>IIUC, when the target already exists, then the file is only touch'ed instead
>of being mv'ed over (or cat'ed).  This of course only happens when the
>already-present target and $3 have the same hash, which sounds like this was
>the case for you.

Yes, exactly that happened.

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