Control: tag -1 + unreproducible moreinfo
Hi Carlos,
sorry for the late reply. Seems to have slipped through the cracks.
Carlos Maddela wrote:
> Perhaps I'm not using this utility in the way it was intended to be
> used, but it falsely reports tarballs to be identical if the top-level
> directories are identical.
Hmmm, I just tried to reproduce this:
$ als foo-1.tar
drwxr-xr-x abe/abe 0 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/
drwxr-xr-x abe/abe 0 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/bar/
-rw-r--r-- abe/abe 4 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/bar/foo
$ als foo-2.tar
drwxr-xr-x abe/abe 0 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/
drwxr-xr-x abe/abe 0 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/fnord/
-rw-r--r-- abe/abe 4 2019-09-01 17:07 foo/fnord/bar
$ tardiff foo-1.tar foo-2.tar
- bar
- bar/foo
+ fnord
+ fnord/bar
I also checked if compressed tar balls make a difference:
$ gzip -9vn *.tar
foo-1.tar: 98.7% -- replaced with foo-1.tar.gz
foo-2.tar: 98.7% -- replaced with foo-2.tar.gz
$ tardiff foo-1.tar.gz foo-2.tar.gz
- bar
- bar/foo
+ fnord
+ fnord/bar
I also tried two debian.tar.xz files:
$ tardiff /var/cache/pbuilder/result/zsh_5.{6.2-3,7.1-1}.debian.tar.xz
- compat
- patches/cherry-pick-551ff842-43464-another-attachtty-fix.patch
- patches/cherrypick_decc78c72__svn:_Allow_hyphens_in_command_name_aliases.patch
+ patches/example-shebang.patch
+ pkg-zsh-workflow-new-upstream-release.md
- pkg-zsh-workflow.md
+ pkg-zsh-workflow_outdated.md
So I can't really reproduce this.
Any idea what I might do different than you? Did you use any
additional commandline options when you ran into this?
P.S.: I've hence uploaded a new tardiff package without your patch,
but once I'm able to reproduce this, I'd include your patch and do
another upload.
Regards, Axel
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