Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#37381: [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:57:34 -0700

On 9/11/19 8:30 AM, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Dear diff devs,
> when recursively comparing directory trees that contain unresolvable symlinks, both matching symlinks make diff senselessly emit a "No such file or directory". Wouldn't it be better if diff'ing two perfectly symmetrical dir trees containing the same broken symlinks would produce no output and a 0 return value?

Yes, there should be an option to do that, and it should be enabled by default 
(unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).