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Diff sym link bug

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From: Alessandro <mirio <at> miriodev.net>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Diff sym link bug
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:17:59 +0200

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Hi,

How to reproduce:

Scenario:

|dirA .. bar -> foo foo dirB .. |

Diff man

|-N, --new-file treat absent files as empty --no-dereference don't follow 
symbolic links |

Output

|$ diff --no-dereference dirA dirB > /dev/null $ diff -N --no-dereference 
dirA dirB > /dev/null diff: dirB/bar: No such file or directory |


Version:

diff (GNU diffutils) 3.6

It's seems a bug, any fix or workaround for that?


Thanks

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