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

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/27/11 15:23, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> I've seen this issue again now using diff 3.0 from Debian sid (see the
> attached log file output.

Is the problem reproducible?
Can you show how to reproduce the problem?

A quick look at the code did find one problem in this area,
though it may not be your problem.  Does the following patch fix
things for you?

--- a/src/dir.c
+++ b/src/dir.c
@@ -161,9 +161,7 @@ compare_names (char const *name1, char const *name2)
       return r;
     }
 
-  return (ignore_file_name_case
-         ? strcasecmp (name1, name2)
-         : file_name_cmp (name1, name2));
+  return file_name_cmp (name1, name2);
 }
 
 /* Compare names FILE1 and FILE2 when sorting a directory.