% ~/src/apache/committers/tools/releases/compare_dirs.pl 0.4.x thrift-0.4.0 \ .gitignore ._CHANGES ._configure.ac Makefile.in aclocal.m4 config.guess \ config.h config.hin config.sub configure depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh \ missing ylwrap rat_exclude thrift-0.4.0/compiler/cpp/thriftl.cc \ thrift-0.4.0/compiler/cpp/thrifty.cc \ thrift-0.4.0/compiler/cpp/thrifty.h 0.4.x/compiler/py \ 0.4.x/compiler/src Makefile ._Rakefile client.sh No differences detected. %
The above compares the branch (0.4.x) against the tarball (thrift-0.4.0). The result looks fine, so I'm +1 for release pending the commit to trunk for the NOTICE file.