Hi, someone mailed me some suggestions for diffoscope, and I'd think some of them still might be worthwhile to be turned into bugs, but i'm not fully sure hence I havent dont that yet...
(this is from someone who uses diffoscope to compare PDFs or other text documents to see how their content has changed, eg when laws or contracts are updated etc) ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:07:38 +0100 From: (in bcc:, please do reply if you want to add anything) To: Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Subject: More (late) feedback on Diffoscope Hi Holger, Let’s see, it’s been a long while since I’ve tried it and made these notes, but here goes: It would be cool if one could tell Diffoscope to show the difference only between the content (ignoring the styling and markup tags) – e.g. useful for documents like “OOXML”, ODF, PDF, perhaps even HTML. Same but reversed? Might be useful to ignore the content, but see the changes between markup and styling are between two websites or documents. Since the HTML output when comparing large inputs simply gives up at some point, it would be useful to force it to still produce an HTML of the whole diff (i.e. yes, I know this will eat up my RAM, I have enough and want you to do it!) I noticed – maybe this has been fixed in the ¾ year since then – that diffing large plaintext files sometimes(?) causes Diffoscope to fall back to binary comparison instead. Which is not very useful in those cases TBH. All that said, it is perfectly fine if the limitations I ran into are just out of scope of Diffoscope. I know I tried to use it for a niche use case (at least compared to its majority user base) ;) cheers, ---- End forwarded message ----- -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ Money is worth nothing on a dead planet.
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