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Based off of #11760 to be mergable without conflicts.
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Fix for #11757.
The main issue in #11757 is I tried to copy the timestamp from one
directory to another only to realize that did not work whereas the
coreutils `^touch` had no problems. I thought `--reference` just did not
work, but apparently the whole `touch` command could not work on
directories because
`OpenOptions::new().write(true).create(true).open(&item)` tries to
create `touch`'s target in advance and then modify its timestamps. But
if the target is a directory that already exists then this would fail
even though the crate used for working with timestamps, `filetime`,
already works on directories.
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I don't believe this should change any existing valid behaviors. It just
changes a non-working behavior.
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~~I only could not run `cargo test` because I get compilation errors on
the latest main branch~~
All tests pass with `cargo test --features=sqlite`
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