Source: diffoscope Version: 54 Severity: minor User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Dear Maintainer, The --help text for diffoscope gives no indication that it operates on directories as well as files: usage: diffoscope [-h] [--version] [--list-tools [LIST_TOOLS]] [--debug] [--debugger] [--html output] [--html-dir output] [--text output] [--max-report-size BYTES] [--separate-file-diff-size BYTES] [--max-diff-block-lines MAX_DIFF_BLOCK_LINES] [--max-diff-input-lines MAX_DIFF_INPUT_LINES] [--fuzzy-threshold FUZZY_THRESHOLD] [--new-file] [--css url] [--jquery url] file1 file2 Highlight differences between two builds of Debian packages positional arguments: file1 first file to compare file2 second file to compare <snip> This should give some indication that diffoscope can compare directories as well as files. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers wily-updates APT policy: (500, 'wily-updates'), (500, 'wily-security'), (500, 'wily'), (100, 'wily-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-36-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds