Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 03:06 +0200, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I've installed the following patch, which I hope fixes things.  If you
> can test it on your data, that'd be nice.  I have verified this bug on
> a much simpler test case, and this patch includes the test case to try
> to make sure that a similar bug doesn't creep back in later.
Uhm... I can't even reproduce it now with the unpatched version ^^

But now I only diff -q -r the relevant directory and not all the
500GB.... can this be the reason?


Cheers,
Chris.


btw:
What's that ^L in the code?
> +  return diff ? diff : file_name_cmp (*f1, *f2);
>  }
>  
>  /* Compare the contents of two directories named in CMP.