Bug#814057: diffoscope: Add option to ignore mtimes

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Tue Feb 7 09:24:58 UTC 2017


Hi Leo,

> Since I am comparing the entire output of Python 2.7's build process,
> there are a lot of files, and they *all* have different ctimes (we set
> mtimes to epoch).

So, we already ignore mtimes on specified command-line arguments:

  $ touch --date="@0" epoch

  $ touch now                

  $ diffoscope epoch now --no-progress

  $ echo $?
  0

Are you referring to {m,c}times, etc. within archives?


Regards,

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