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REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it

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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a
 short option for it
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:42:57 +0200

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Hey.

It seems that --no-dereference is not documented in the manpage.


Apart from that, --no-dereference seem to me like the more native way
for a recursive diff to work,... i.e. diffing the values of symlinks
and not (recursively) the stuff they point to.

Since no-dereference is so helpful, could you perhaps add a shortcut -R
that is recursive + no-dereference?


Unfortunately it's probably too late to change -r to behave like --no
-dereference (and instead add a --dereference and a -R).


Best wishes,
Chris.

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