I looked at the documentation and the examples provided here and they
are working as documented. I don't think there is a bug here.
Now, in theory, it might be nice to have a flag which prevents old .orig
files from being overwritten. I can see how that would be beneficial.
But the examples
simple example:
==
me@ant(15)~/tmp$ cat a
a
me@ant(16)~/tmp$ cat b
a\nb
me@ant(17)~/tmp$ echo a b
me@ant(18)~/tmp$ echo b b
me@ant(19)~/tmp$ cat a
a
me@ant(20)~/tmp$ cat b
a
b
me@ant(21)~/tmp$ diff -C 3 a b
*** a 2011-02-17 02:27:51.0 -0500
--- b 2011-02-17
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