On 01/06/11 15:16, Michael Lawrence wrote: > It's too bad there isn't an option to preserve the old behavior, > which was practically useful even if inconsistent.
Why was it useful in practice? If there's a good argument for the inconsistent behavior, perhaps we should add that option. Does adding the --hard-dereference option give you the behavior that you want? If not, what's different between "--dereference --hard-dereference" and the behavior that you want?
