Subject: bug#7615: 20101204: dired-diff now broken due to quoting ~

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:52 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:

> = runs the command dired-diff, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
> function in `dired-aux.el'.
>
> Lately it is quoting any file located off the home directory, thus
> breaking it.
>
> diff -U0 \~/namecard/namecard wapper
> diff: ~/namecard/namecard: No such file or directory
>
> The workaround is to copy the file out of the home directory to
> somewhere else, then diff there.
>
> Sorry if a duplicate report: too hard to find the bug in
> debbugs.gnu.org.

Sorry can't reproduce this: too hard to understand what you are talking
about.

Please provide a complete, concise recipe starting from emacs -Q.
(I'm not interested in simply being pointed at your configuration files.)