Maybe the commit message is not clear, but all the code that was removed does is change the opertional mode of an already existing instance of ClipboardUpdater. It tells it to overwrite the content instead of updating it (the default mode). It does not remove the functionality of being able to do what you outlined above.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:25 PM, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:

On Sunday 23 March 2014 16:24:33 Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> Git commit 3e22d6c90d43989a06aed3b0bfb5ac7e6d606311 by Dawit Alemayehu.
> Committed on 23/03/2014 at 16:17.
> Pushed by adawit into branch 'KDE/4.12'.
>
> Do not blindly overwrite the content of the clipboard on KIO move
> operations.

Hmm, not even in the case that this was intended for?

(Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+V, the same files should move again).

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