https://github.com/OCamlPro/dirdiff

Efficiently compute the differences between two directories
https://github.com/OCamlPro/dirdiff

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Efficiently compute the differences between two directories

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/OCamlPro/dirdiff
• Owner: OCamlPro
• Created: 2022-11-08T13:34:45.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-29T12:43:44.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-26T16:04:07.595Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Rust
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• Size: 880 KB
• Stars: 83
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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Dirdiff

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Dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It lists files that either:

1. exist only in one of the directories, or

2. exist in both directories but with different content.

Dirdiff is intended to work on large directories, thanks to multi-threading, and by not trying to display the diff of the files' content.

It can be up to ten times faster than `diff -qNr`.

Installation

------------

## Released binary

Precompiled binaries for (relatively recent) Linux/amd64 are available for every tagged [release](https://github.com/OCamlPro/dirdiff/releases).

## Install (by compiling from sources) using cargo

```

cargo install dirdiff-ocamlpro

```

## Building

Dirdiff is written in Rust. To build it you will need to have the rust toolchain installed. 

Once you have obtained the source, the following command will build the binary and put it in the root directory of the repo.

```bash

cd dirdiff/

cargo build --release

# Copy the binary to the root of the repo

mv target/release/dirdiff dirdiff

```

Usage

-----

```

Usage: dirdiff [OPTIONS]  

Arguments:

  

          First directory to diff from

  

          Second directory to diff from

Options:

  -j, --jobs 

          Number of parallel threads to use.

          Use 0 or no option for auto-detection.

      --check-mtime

          Whether to check if the mtime is different.

          Only applies to file whose content is otherwise the same, and gets its specific output tag: `[Differ by mtime only]`.

  -L, --follow-symlink

          Whether to follow symlinks when comparing directories' content

  -H

          Whether to follow symlinks for program's arguments

  -h, --help

          Print help information (use `-h` for a summary)

  -V, --version

          Print version information

```

Sample output

-------------

Columns are tab separated

```

[Files differ]	"foo/bar"

[Present in first dir. only]	"subdir_a"

[Present in second dir. only]	"subdir_b"

```

The diff is outputted to `stdout`.