I cannot reproduce the behaviour you reported.

davee@equinox:~/tmp/aaaa$ ls -lR
.:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 davee users 4096 Nov  5 13:24 bar
drwxr-xr-x 2 davee users 4096 Nov  5 13:24 foo

./bar:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 23 Nov  5 13:24 afile1
-rw-r--r-- 1 davee users  0 Nov  5 13:22 baz
-rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 21 Nov  5 13:24 file1

./foo:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 18 Nov  5 13:24 afile1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 davee users  6 Nov  5 13:23 baz -> ../baz
-rw-r--r-- 1 davee users 15 Nov  5 13:24 file1

$ colordiff -r foo bar
diff -r foo/afile1 bar/afile1
1c1
< Something is here
---
> Something else is here
diff: foo/baz: No such file or directory
diff -r foo/file1 bar/file1
1c1
< This is a file
---
> This is another file

What platform/OS/etc. does this happen on? Apart from not being able to
reproduce the issue it does seem like a *very* unusual scenario where
deliberately-broken links have been introduced.

Dave.

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