On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:18 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: > On 28/04/17 10:05, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:31 +0200, Vincent wrote: > >> Could you tell me more about synccompare? > > > > In the syncevolution.org packages, it is under /usr/bin/synccompare. > > It's a perl script that takes two database dumps and compares them, > > similar to a diff between text files. > > I find it to be of variable usefulness. It is great when it works, but > in my experience it scales horribly.
I just use it on a laptop and it works for me, but I agree that it's mostly a hack originating in the automated testing. There's even a bug open for rewriting it... > I think I always see "comparison was impossible" with refreshes. I > assumed that is because the databases are deleted or something (although > thinking about it further I am not sure that is a reasonable expectation). There should be "before" and "after" dumps also for refreshes, so this has to be something else. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.syncevolution.org/mailman/listinfo/syncevolution
