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: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Diff and symlinks
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:12:00 -0500

Hi,

When making recursive diffs, diff resolves symlinks. This creates
invalid patches since patch refuses to patch through a symlink. A -L
option to either turn on or off symlink resolution would be nice to
have.

See patch failure here:

    https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5157/9125157/build.log

Thanks,

--Ben
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