Doesn't work when targeting symbolic link/-s

[irvnriir]

The left and right path can't be compared!

[L13]

I put it on my todo list. the feature was never intended.

[htchien]

Hi,

I also have this issue in my vscode with Diff Folders. When some file in one of the compare folder is an symbolic link, it would fail with EACCES: permission denied error.

Maybe at least you could provide an option to ignore this kind of error for symbolic files so we could continue to compare other files in the folders. For now Diff Folders is useless if we want to do the folder comparison in VSCode....

Thanks.

[L13]

Hi, the idea he mentioned is not the problem you have. It seems you are using Windows and symbolic links are only fully working in admin mode. If you wanna ignore this errors the extension still provides an option which is called Abort on Error. If you disable it the scan completes and shows the file as error or unknown in the list.