2014-10-06 14:45 GMT+02:00 Eric Blake <[email protected]>:
> This feels like feature bloat.  What's wrong with using 'find' to locate
> the subset of files you are interested in, then running diff on those files?

It's a bit messy to work around with find:

  find a/ b/ -type f -printf "%P\0" | sort -zu | xargs -0 -n1 -i% diff
-Nu a/% b/%

Daniel's proposed feature makes this easier and more efficient (as diff won't
be invoked for each file), so it looks good to me.

Thanks,
Andreas



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