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Subject: Re: difftool -d symlinks, under what conditions
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> How about something like "--symlink-all" where the everything in the
> right-hand tree is symlink'd?

Does it even have to be conditional?  What is the situation when you
do not want symbolic links?