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[bug-diffutils] bug#43923: "only in" message in recursive diff is ambigu


From: php fan
Subject: [bug-diffutils] bug#43923: "only in" message in recursive diff is ambiguous and hence useless if the directories have the same name
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:52:52 +0200

Steps to reproduce:

- have two folders with the same name under different paths such as
/path/to/xxx and /path/to/other/xxx
- Have some files that exist only in one folder, and some that exist
only in the other
- Run:

$ diff -r /path/to/xxx /path/to/other/xxx

You'll get messages like:
  Only in xxx: somefile.txt
  Only in xxx: otherfile.php

You see the problem, right? How stupid is that.


$diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.7





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