Le mardi 8 octobre 2019, 23:42:55 CEST Mark Derricutt a écrit : > On 6 Oct 2019, at 9:14, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > > if anybody cares about the exact value: but > > who really looks at the timestamp of entries in release zips/jars/tar.gz > > honestly? > > I've actually done so in the past trying to find differences between two > versions of a jar for repair reasons. > > VERY infrequent tho - if you're wanting to generate a delta-patch between > two jars/zips then I guess it might also be handy (altho you might be > better off going direct for checksumdifferences there ). FYI, when you try to know the difference between 2 archives, the ideal tool is diffoscope [1]: it has been done exactly for that
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