Re: [PATCH] ls --group-directories-first: symlinks to dirs are dirs too

[Jim Meyering]

Bert Wesarg <address@hidden> wrote:
> With the --group-directories-first option, ls shows directories on top of all
> non directory entries, but IMHO symlinks to directories should be handle as
> directories as well.

Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that
requires some serious justification.

It'd be slightly easier if you were proposing a new option, but,
for ls, even that is problematic, since there are already so many.