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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check
From: |
Christoph Anton Mitterer |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:27:57 +0200 |
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.