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Re: diff manual misses -P


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: diff manual misses -P
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:06:50 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Jan Engelhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> both manual and info pages of "diff" lack the -P option.

That is on purpose.  The meaning of -P option may change in the
future, for compatibility with other programs that deal with symbolic
links.  Portable applications should use --unidirectional-new-file,
instead of relying on the old, undocumented -P option.




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