Re: design problem in 'diff -r' comparing 2 trees.

2018-07-17 Thread L A Walsh
Morgan Weetman wrote: I'm not sure this is the correct list for your query... but does your diff not have a '--no-dereference' option? Ahhh...it does -- just not documented in the man page. As for sending to wrong list..look at that address. "bug-diffut...@gnu.org" of course I just

Re: design problem in 'diff -r' comparing 2 trees.

2018-07-17 Thread Morgan Weetman
I'm not sure this is the correct list for your query... but does your diff not have a '--no-dereference' option? On 17 July 2018 at 19:06, L A Walsh wrote: > > Problem I'm running into is comparing two copies of tree that also > contains multiple symlinks. > > First -- I see no way of telling di

design problem in 'diff -r' comparing 2 trees.

2018-07-17 Thread L A Walsh
Problem I'm running into is comparing two copies of tree that also contains multiple symlinks. First -- I see no way of telling diff not to follow symlinks in doing comparisons. This seems non-standard for unix/linux utils and in this case is causing alot of needless comparing like trying to