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[bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks
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Ben Boeckel |
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Subject: |
[bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks |
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Date: |
Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:12:00 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hi,
When making recursive diffs, diff resolves symlinks. This creates
invalid patches since patch refuses to patch through a symlink. A -L
option to either turn on or off symlink resolution would be nice to
have.
See patch failure here:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5157/9125157/build.log
Thanks,
--Ben
- [bug-diffutils] bug#19984: Diff and symlinks,
Ben Boeckel <=