Subject: bug#19984: [bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks

From: Andreas Grünbacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:18:18 +0100

2015-03-03 16:09 GMT+01:00 Ben Boeckel <[email-masked]>:
> Ah, I had missed that option. I had searched for 'symlinks' and didn't
> see anything. *adds to Fedora patch alias*

Be careful with that option and don't even think about adding it globally
for all packages -- the resulting semantics are weird and it breaks
symlinks in git-style diffs.

Andreas