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REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:42:57 +0200 |
Hey.
It seems that --no-dereference is not documented in the manpage.
Apart from that, --no-dereference seem to me like the more native way
for a recursive diff to work,... i.e. diffing the values of symlinks
and not (recursively) the stuff they point to.
Since no-dereference is so helpful, could you perhaps add a shortcut -R
that is recursive + no-dereference?
Unfortunately it's probably too late to change -r to behave like --no
-dereference (and instead add a --dereference and a -R).
Best wishes,
Chris.
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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: --no-dereference |
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Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:54:44 -0700 |
tags 21023 notabug
thanks
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
<address@hidden> wrote:
> --no-dereference appears in 'diff --help' and 'info diffutils', but
> not in 'man diff'.
Thanks for the report, but that is unlikely to be a problem with this
upstream diffutils package, since the man page (diff.1) is
automatically generated from the output of diff --help, and the build
machinery to do that has been in place for over a decade. I would
suspect whatever installed your diff man pages or the configuration of
your "man(1)" program -- maybe it is searching in the wrong place.
I'm closing the auto-generated ticket in our bug-tracking system, but
please reply here (we'll still see it) if you think there is something
we can improve on this front.
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