MoveDirectory and CopyDirectory with overwrite

[jnm2]

Please support overwriting with MoveDirectory and CopyDirectory.

A bool parameter in the third position would make sense, wouldn't it? This seems common enough and similar enough to other APIs:

MoveDirectory(fromPath, toPath, true);
CopyDirectory(fromPath, toPath, false);

Or should an entire options class be created in order to specify Overwrite?

[gsferreira]

@jnm2 could you explain why you have that need?

I'm saying that, because I had the same need but then I figured out that I wasn't Cleaning the output directory.

[jnm2]

@gsferreira I have tried that angle, but the need is intrinsic. I'm ILMerging into an assembly of the same name. I need to specify a temporary folder for the output so that the output doesn't overwrite the input .dll, .pdb and .xml, which causes ILMerge to crash. However as soon as ILMerge is finished, I need to copy whatever files are in the temporary directory into the original folder. The overwritten files may be any combination of .dll, .pdb, .xml, etc and I should not have to care which combination end up in the intermediate directory: any files present should simply replace the files in the original directory. Files in the original directory should not be deleted, besides the replacements.