Bug#839538: diffoscope: json: detect order-only differences

HW42 hw42 at ipsumj.de
Sat Oct 1 17:39:00 UTC 2016


Daniel Shahaf:
> It would be better to report "json files are equal up to order of
> elements in an object (= hash, dictionary, associative array)", and to
> print the difference in a more readable way than a hex dump.  (For
> example, a linewise diff of pretty-printed json.)

While at it, it should also be considered that the formating can be
different without changing the order.

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