On 2025-06-24 19:46, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
The following used to work, but now does not:
diff -q --to-file=old foo.tex bar.tex
where old is a sub-directory of the current directory.
This always reports:
diff: old: No such file or directory
It's ok when only one file is listed:
diff -q --to-file=old foo.tex
Do you have entries ./old/{foo,bar}.tex, do each differ from respective
./{foo,bar}.tex, and are there any other entries or directories under ./old/?
Are there are any file name case differences or symlinks in paths?
It is often more useful to ls -l (-gG) and diff (-q) actual directories
./{,old/} so we can see all relevant information (maybe sanitize info if
necessary).
cygcheck -c diffutils
indicates version 3.12-1.
cygwin is 3.6.3-1
Let me know if there is more info I can offer.
Any reason why you chose --to-file option for your old directory rather than the
more conventional --from-file option?
Note: 3.11 update was huge with ~250 commits, compared to normal ~50 commits per
release, and right now getting (frequent 502 Bad Gateway) problems accessing
source repo, but noticing that same file tests get a lot of optimizations, which
may cause problems in our environment as we support, for example, birth time.
If you could check whether the issue appeared in 3.11 and worked okay in 3.10 or
point to the failing version that would be useful.
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