Support --recursive flag

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the diff command's option parsing and directory-comparison entry points, then inspect existing CLI tests; done means both -r and --recursive perform recursive diffs of directories.

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Description

uutils/diffutils doesn't currently support the -r/--recursive flag for recursive diffs of directories.

Dominant language
Rust
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Merged PRs (30d)
3

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