https://github.com/evgeni/cfgdiff

diff(1) all your configs
https://github.com/evgeni/cfgdiff

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diff(1) all your configs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/evgeni/cfgdiff
• Owner: evgeni
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-02-04T10:10:00.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: devel
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-27T19:33:10.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-19T11:07:55.516Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: config, diff, ini, json, python, xml, yaml
• Language: Python
• Size: 47.9 KB
• Stars: 141
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 10
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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cfgdiff -- `diff(1)` all your configuration files

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Why?

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Ever tried comparing MySQL's `my.cnf` from a Debian and a Gentoo machine

with `diff(1)` without going crazy?

`diff(1)` is an awesome tool, you use it (or similar implementations

like `git diff`, `svn diff` etc) every day when dealing with code.

But configuration files aren't code. Indentation often does not matter

(yeah, there is `diff -w` and yeah, people use YAML for configs), order

of settings does not matter and comments are just beautiful noise.

How?

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`cfgdiff` will try to parse your configuration files, fetching all the

relevant keys and values from them and then pretty-printing them in the

original format. These results are then diffed and the diff is shown to

you.

What?

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`cfgdiff` currently supports the following formats:

- INI using Python's [ConfigParser](http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html) library

- JSON using Python's [JSON](http://docs.python.org/library/json.html) library

- YAML if the Python [YAML](http://pyyaml.org/) library is installed

- XML if the Python [lxml](http://lxml.de/) library is installed