rcdiff 1.0.2

A small tool to generate and display diffs between 2 directory.

Recursive Diff

A command-line utility to compare two directories recursively and identify differences in files.

Features

• Compare directory structures recursively
• Display files that exist in one directory but not the other
• Show number of differing lines for files present in both directories
• Filter hidden files (configurable)
• Ignore files by extension/postfix

Installation

From PyPI

pip install rcdiff

Build with uv

If you have uv installed:

# Clone the repository
git clone <repository-url>
cd refactor-tool

# Build and install
uv pip install -e .

# Or build the distribution
uv build

Usage

rcdiff <dir1> <dir2> [options]

Arguments

• dir1 — First directory to compare
• dir2 — Second directory to compare

Options

• --exclude_hidden_files — Exclude hidden files (default behavior)
• --include_hidden_files — Include hidden files in comparison
• --ignore_postfixes POSTFIX [POSTFIX ...] — File extensions to ignore (default: .pyc)

Examples

# Basic comparison
rcdiff ./old_code ./new_code

# Include hidden files
rcdiff ./old_code ./new_code --include_hidden_files

# Ignore multiple file types
rcdiff ./old_code ./new_code --ignore_postfixes .pyc .log .tmp

Output

Displays a formatted table with:

• file — Relative file path
• in [dir1] — Whether file exists in first directory (y/empty)
• in [dir2] — Whether file exists in second directory (y/empty)
• diff lines — Number of differing lines (only shown if differences exist)

Example Output

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ file         ┃ in old  ┃ in new  ┃ diff lines ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ main.py      │ y       │ y       │ 5          │
│ config.json  │ y       │         │            │
│ test.py      │         │ y       │            │
└──────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴────────────┘