On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 17:52, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 05:00:34PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote: > > > At one point I considered trying out diffoscope for this. It should > > allegedly be good at comparing "everything". But being good at > > everything, it wanted to pull in a discouragingly large number of > > dependencies, so I never actually tried it out. It doesn't explicitly > > claim to know html or manpages (but does mention xml and pdf), so I > > dunno. > > I tried it just now, and it's not that clever. A regular "diff -r" of > the before and after HTML yields what you'd expect: > > A diffoscope diff yields the same, plus it complains about differing > timestamps on all of the files. I don't think it's doing anything clever > with respect to HTML formatting. I see, thanks for trying it out. Martin
