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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Message #20 received at 19984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Grünbacher <agruen <at> gnu.org>
To: mathstuf <at> gmail.com
Cc: 19984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:24:25 +0100

Okay, this is safe, diff will just fail when it encounters symlinks
that don't point to the same file.

Andreas
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 75 days ago.

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