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--- Begin Message ---Source: diffoscope Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It would be helpful if users could instruct diffoscope to not report different mtimes and ctimes in the files being inspected. Here is my use case: I am hunting down some non-determinism in the python-2.7 package in GNU Guix. Our build system installs all the outputs of the build process in one directory. I make a copy of that directory, erase the source of the copy, rebuild, make a second copy, and then use diffoscope to compare the copies. Since I am comparing the entire output of Python 2.7's build process, there are a lot of files, and they *all* have different ctimes (we set mtimes to epoch). The resulting diffoscope HTML report is 41 megabytes, and I would guess that 99% of it is reporting the different ctimes. It takes a while to sift through this noise to find the real problems, and loading the file threatens the health of my web browser ;) BTW, I am using diffoscope-34, provided by Guix, although I don't think this affects the validity of my request. PS— My apologies if this report is formatted improperly. It's my first time submitting a bug to Debian via email (reportbug did not work out of the box). -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---Hi Leo, First, thanks for getting back to us :) > Now, it would be nice if diffoscope had an option to report these > differences :) Sure. I think the best way forward would be to file a fresh, new wishlist bug expressing exactly what you currently see, and what you would like to see instead. That way we don't confuse it with the history of this particular bug. A small testcase — just shell snippets, no need for an actual diffoscope Python testcase! — would be absolutely perfect. (Closing this one in the meantime...) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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