GNU bug report logs - #19984
Diff and symlinks

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: mathstuf <at> gmail.com

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 01:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Grünbacher <agruen <at> gnu.org>
To: mathstuf <at> gmail.com
Cc: 19984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19984: [bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:18:18 +0100

2015-03-03 16:09 GMT+01:00 Ben Boeckel <mathstuf <at> gmail.com>:
> 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
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