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

From: Andreas Grünbacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:06:17 +0100

Well, diff has a --no-dereference option for not following symlinks,
and patch has a --follow-symlinks option that will replace symlinks
with patched files. What else do you have in mind?

It's unfortunate that diff doesn't support git-style patches; this
would solve such ambiguities.

Andreas