Python utilities for Meld, good for managing templates across lots of repos / projects
Project description
Meld Utilities
Python scripts using Meld to accomplish tasks useful for managing large numbers of repos / projects, particularly for templates. It works on any OS Meld works on (Linux, MacOS, Windows).
Scripts
meld_all project/myfile.f90 ~/code
That terminal command invokes meld between project/myfile.f90 and every other file with the same name found recursively under ~/code.
Usage
Particularly on Windows, you may get Meld brought up and you don't see any difference.
This is often because one file as a trailing \n and the other file does not, or the other file has \r\n.
Meld won't show any difference, even with all text filters off.
Because of how Python filecmp.cmp works, there isn't a blazing fast simple solution to this besides using str.replace, which I didn't want to do.
So just realize it's OK, close Meld when it shows no difference and happy comparing!
Reference: https://github.com/dsindex/blog/wiki/%5Bpython%5D-string-compare-disregarding-white-space
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