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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | [bug-diffutils] bug#37381: bug#37381: [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default |
Date: | Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:57:34 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 |
On 9/11/19 8:30 AM, Marcel Partap wrote:
Dear diff devs, when recursively comparing directory trees that contain unresolvable symlinks, both matching symlinks make diff senselessly emit a "No such file or directory". Wouldn't it be better if diff'ing two perfectly symmetrical dir trees containing the same broken symlinks would produce no output and a 0 return value?
Yes, there should be an option to do that, and it should be enabled by default (unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).
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