On Tuesday 21 December 2004 10:27, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
> have two directories lets call them /srv/a and /srv/b. They are both
> root filesystems copied via rsync from another computer. I would like
> to generate a diff between them but am running into a symlink problem.
> It seems that the symlinks are setup to run off the former filesystem
> root. Is there any way to diff these directories?
>
> The end result I would like to do is generate patches that I can apply
> to a base file system.
Have you looked into dirdiff? I haven't tried it, but it is supposed to be
better for comparing directories than just diff.
Jeff
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