Bug#246838: diff: option to ignore symbolic links (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the debian bug system:

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From: Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:23:53 +0200
Subject: Bug#246838: diff: option to ignore symbolic links

Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-6
Severity: wishlist

Please, could we have an option to ignore symbolic links (in particular
in a recursive diff)?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-newpmac
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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