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: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Grünbacher <agruen <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19984: [bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks
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
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