Bug#907600: diffoscope: add option to ignore timestamp differences in containers

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Chris,
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:43 AM Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Felipe,
>
> > diffoscope has been a very useful tool for me, in comparing dumps of
> > various sorts spit out by several systems. It would be great to have an
> > option to ignore timestamps
>
> Does the --exclude-directory-metadata option match your requirements?


No, and according to the manpage it is intentional:

> Metadata of archive members remain un-excluded.

I could get the results I want by unpacking the tarballs on two dirs and
then using this option, though, so thanks for suggesting it!

It would still be nice if diffoscope provided this option natively.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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