Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 21:24 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Is the problem reproducible?
Well yes,.. but only on my big ~500GB directory hierarchy..

> Can you show how to reproduce the problem?
I tried several things the last days, so that I could send you a tarball
containing just some files where you could reprodcu it... but no
success.


> A quick look at the code did find one problem in this area,
> though it may not be your problem.  Does the following patch fix
> things for you?
I'll try this in a few weeks (I'm on holidays now) and report back.


Cheers,
Chris.

btw: Aren't you the tar maintainer? Any progress with inclusion of these
xattr patches?

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