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

From: Ben Boeckel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:20:04 -0500

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 16:18:18 +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> 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.

It's for making patches for Fedora packages, so it looks like:

    alias fdiff="diff -r -U5 --no-dereference"

--Ben