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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | [bug-diffutils] bug#46550: bug#46550: bug in diff -r? |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:22:22 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 |
On 2/15/21 1:56 PM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding diff -r?
Perhaps a bit of both. The algorithm you want (which is to pretend that directories missing in A are empty in B, and vice versa) is not the algorithm that 'diff -r A B' uses.
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