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Authored by des on Jun 29 2024, 5:56 PM.
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Also, --no-dereference should not imply --recurse.

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des requested review of this revision.Jun 29 2024, 5:56 PM
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I kind of feel that '--no-follow' is the more common name, but not that fussed.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 29 2024, 8:14 PM

I suppose I could add --no-follow and / or --nofollow as aliases, but --no-dereference is what GNU diff uses.

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