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Diff sym link bug

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From: Alessandro <mirio <at> miriodev.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 31199 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31199: [bug-diffutils] bug#31199: Diff sym link bug
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:34:15 +0200

So, how we can solve it?


On 17/04/2018 22:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/17/2018 11:28 AM, Alessandro wrote:
>> The bug is why show the error and ignore -N on sym link. 
>
> I think we are miscommunicating. What I am saying is that diff is not 
> ignoring -N, and there is an error if one directory has a dangling 
> symlink and another directory has nothing.
>

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