https://github.com/scivision/meldutils

Meld utilities in Python, useful for updating templates across large number of Git repos and projects
https://github.com/scivision/meldutils

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Meld utilities in Python, useful for updating templates across large number of Git repos and projects

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scivision/meldutils
• Owner: scivision
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-16T00:42:36.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-28T06:48:51.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-02T00:25:07.351Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: meld
• Language: Python
• Size: 37.1 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Graphical recursive file comparison

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Using

[Meld](https://meldmerge.org)

or

[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)

to accomplish file differencing.

Useful for managing large numbers of repos / projects, particularly for templates.

```sh

python -m meldutils project/myfile.f90 ~/code

```

graphically compares `project/myfile.f90` with every other file of the same name  recursively under `~/code`.

Particularly on Windows, the GUI may be invoked, but you don't see any difference.

This is often because only one of the two files as a trailing `\n` or `\r\n`.

Meld won't show any difference, even with all text filters off.

Because of how Python `filecmp.cmp` works, there isn't a blazing fast simple solution to this.

A possibly slow solution would be using str.replace.

So just realize it's OK, close Meld when it shows no difference and happy comparing!

[Reference](https://github.com/dsindex/blog/wiki/%5Bpython%5D-string-compare-disregarding-white-space)