From c8ac02d6f23a786dd1ea5404c29ae213905febbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:12:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Emit a warning when src is used with a state where it should
 be ignored

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
index ef53b2cadda..f81a4620fd9 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
@@ -337,13 +337,17 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
             new_module_args = _create_remote_file_args(self._task.args)
             new_module_args.update(
                 dict(
-                    src=source_rel,
                     dest=dest,
                     original_basename=source_rel,
                     recurse=False,
                     state='file',
                 )
             )
+            # src is sent to the file module in _original_basename, not in src
+            try:
+                del new_module_args['src']
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
 
             if lmode:
                 new_module_args['mode'] = lmode