tardiff
Compare two tarballs and emit a markdown diff report.
Reports:
- Files present only in A (removed in B)
- Files present only in B (added in B)
- Files in both whose size changed (with absolute and percentage delta)
- Per-tarball totals (file count + total bytes) and the net delta
Supported formats: .tar, .tar.gz/.tgz, .tar.bz2/.tbz2, .tar.xz/.txz
(compression is auto-detected).
Install
From PyPI:
pip install py-tardiff
(The distribution name on PyPI is py-tardiff; the import name and CLI are
both tardiff.)
From source:
pip install .
Or run without installing, using a one-off environment:
pipx run --spec py-tardiff tardiff OLD.tar.gz NEW.tar.gz
Usage
tardiff OLD.tar.gz NEW.tar.gz # writes diff.md
tardiff OLD.tar.gz NEW.tar.gz -o report.md # custom output path
python -m tardiff OLD.tar.gz NEW.tar.gz # equivalent
A short summary is printed to stderr so the command composes in pipelines:
Wrote diff.md: -3 +5 ~12 files, Δ +4096 B
Library use
from pathlib import Path
from tardiff import read_tar, compute_diff, render_report
a = read_tar(Path("old.tar.gz"))
b = read_tar(Path("new.tar.gz"))
diff = compute_diff(a, b)
print(render_report(a, b, diff))
Status
Could be lots better. Filters, ignore small changes, file content diffs, etc.
— Kurt
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
Release files for py-tardiff 0.1
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