Bug#1004182: diffoscope: can't compare non-existent files: No such file or directory

Jakub Wilk jwilk at jwilk.net
Mon Jan 24 18:53:04 GMT 2022


* Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>, 2022-01-24, 11:21:
>https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/b51a31e9c5d62d40327a870cb8dfdbeed9a4b021

Hmm, that's not the outcome I was hoping for…

But when reading the changelog entry for 32, I (re-)discovered the 
option --new-file, which makes this work:

    $ diffoscope --new-file /nonexistent archive.zip
    --- /nonexistent
    +++ archive.zip
    ├── zipinfo {}
    │ @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
    │ +Zip file size: 199 bytes, number of entries: 1
    │ +-rw-r--r--  3.0 unx       13 tx stor 21-Aug-22 17:00 etc/debian_version
    │ +1 file, 13 bytes uncompressed, 13 bytes compressed:  0.0%
    ...

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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