dircomply 1.2.1

Compare the files between two project folders.

📁 dircomply - Folder Comparison Tool

dircomply is a lightweight tool to compare files between two directories.It highlights files that differ and those that are unique to each folder.Supports both CLI mode and GUI mode for ease of use.

✅ Features

• Compare files between two folders
• Detect differences in file contents
• List unique files in each folder
• Supported filetypes are listed later
• Override or append compare extensions and skipped directories from CLI
• Configure GUI font size/zoom for high-DPI monitors
• GUI mode for interactive comparison
• CLI mode for quick terminal use

💾 Installation

Install dircomply using pip:

pip install dircomply

🧪 Example Usage

Compare two folders via CLI:

dircomply /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2

Append one skipped directory and one content extension to the JSON defaults:

dircomply /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2 --append_skip_dir dist --append_content_ext .toml

Overwrite skipped directories and content extensions from the JSON defaults:

dircomply /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2 --skip_dir .git,build --content_ext .py --content_ext .json

Launch GUI mode:

dircomply

Launch GUI mode with temporary larger text/zoom:

dircomply --font_size 16 --result_font_size 16 --zoom 1.5

Show version info:

dircomply --version

Display author details:

dircomply --author

📌 Supported CLI Options

Option Description --help, -h Show help message and exit --version, -v Show version number and exit --author, -a Show author name and exit --email, -e Show author email and exit --content_ext VALUE Overwrite JSON content_extensions --append_content_ext VALUE Append to JSON content_extensions --existence_ext VALUE Overwrite JSON existence_extensions --append_existence_ext VALUE Append to JSON existence_extensions --skip_dir VALUE Overwrite JSON skip_dirs --append_skip_dir VALUE Append to JSON skip_dirs --font_size VALUE Override GUI label/input/button font size --result_font_size VALUE Override result popup text size --zoom VALUE Override Tk scaling for high-DPI monitors

VALUE can be comma-separated or the flag can be repeated. --existance_ext and --append_existance_ext are also accepted as aliases. If no arguments are passed, GUI mode will be launched.

🔍 GUI Text Size / Zoom

The GUI reads user settings from:

~/.config/dircomply/settings.json

Example for a 2K/high-DPI monitor:

{
    "ui": {
        "font_family": "Arial",
        "font_size": 16,
        "result_font_size": 16,
        "tk_scaling": 1.5,
        "window_width": 750,
        "window_height": 430,
        "popup_width": 950,
        "popup_height": 700
    }
}

tk_scaling zooms the whole Tkinter UI. font_size and result_font_size control the text size.

🔎 What Gets Compared?

dircomply compares only files with the following extensions:

        ".txt", ".py", ".bat", ".html", ".ts",".json",".scss",".tcl",".md",
        ".yaml",".yml",".ini",".in",".sh",".gitignore"

Also check below files on existence check rather than the content difference check.

        ".xlsx", ".csv", ".docx",
        ".png",".jpeg",".jpg",".ods",
        ".pdf", ".ico"

The default skipped directories are:

        ".git", ".venv", "nodemodules", ".vscode", "__pycache__", "build"

All other file types are ignored during the comparison.