Bug#893324: diffoscope: mechanism to ignore changes to file modification dates

2018-03-17 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 893324 + moreinfo thanks Hi Paul, > it would be nice to have a way to ignore the modification timestamp. Does this not already exist? $ mkdir a b $ touch a/foo $ sleep 1 $ touch b/foo $ diffoscope --no-progress --exclude-directory-metadata a b $ echo $? 0 Regards, -- ,''`.

Bug#893324: diffoscope: mechanism to ignore changes to file modification dates

2018-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
Package: diffoscope Version: 91 Severity: wishlist When I am sponsoring packages I sometimes use diffoscope to compare source packages. Often a lot of timestamps have changed but I don't really care about timestamp changes when sponsoring packages, so it would be nice to have a way to ignore the m