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Hello! Thanks for making this tool - it's quite cool and fast.
I've been using difft as well as diffoscope and was curious if you had a solution to a problem diffoscope solves, that I don't think difft handles today.
Here's my current use case, let me know if it doesn't make sense:
I often expand multiple zip files containing a variety of files, and want to establish a few things:
a. How "same" are these zip file contents?
b. What are the distinct differences?
For a, I'd love a way to emit only a percentage as output, somewhat similar to --check-only - that way I could run a lot of diffs and only stop when something is either too similar or too divergent.
I think difft solves most of b, but doesn't handle path name differences yet, unless I don't have the right flags.
Here's an example expanded layout of two almost-identical zip files:
Both contain same files, but have slightly differing different paths.
Using diffoscope I execute: diffoscope --exclude-directory-metadata=yes analyticsclient-6502 brotli-bin-0.0.1 and get an output of the differences for the PKG_INFO files in the *-info sudirectories side by side - but difft can't compare those yet.
(--exclude-directory-metadata=yes is to remove comparing the times and dates on the files, but I think that's diffoscope-specific and difft doesn't care about that yet.)
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Hello! Thanks for making this tool - it's quite cool and fast.
I've been using difft as well as diffoscope and was curious if you had a solution to a problem diffoscope solves, that I don't think difft handles today.
Here's my current use case, let me know if it doesn't make sense:
I often expand multiple zip files containing a variety of files, and want to establish a few things:
a. How "same" are these zip file contents?
b. What are the distinct differences?
For a, I'd love a way to emit only a percentage as output, somewhat similar to
--check-only
- that way I could run a lot of diffs and only stop when something is either too similar or too divergent.I think
difft
solves most of b, but doesn't handle path name differences yet, unless I don't have the right flags.Here's an example expanded layout of two almost-identical zip files:
Both contain same files, but have slightly differing different paths.
Using diffoscope I execute:
diffoscope --exclude-directory-metadata=yes analyticsclient-6502 brotli-bin-0.0.1
and get an output of the differences for thePKG_INFO
files in the*-info
sudirectories side by side - but difft can't compare those yet.(
--exclude-directory-metadata=yes
is to remove comparing the times and dates on the files, but I think that's diffoscope-specific and difft doesn't care about that yet.)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: