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Re: diff: bad treatment of symlinks
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: diff: bad treatment of symlinks |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:41:07 +0200 |
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"Andries E. Brouwer" <address@hidden> writes:
> You are mistaken: diff -r tree1 tree2 operates on filesystem trees
> containing all kinds of files.
When both files with the same name are plain files then diff shall
display their differences in contents. Since plain diff always follows
symlinks, it makes more sense for diff -r to do it too (POSIX makes this
implementation-defined though).
Andreas.
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