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Capture diffs of dist tarballs vs auto-generated source archives from GitHub#833
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Capture diffs of dist tarballs vs auto-generated source archives from GitHub#833
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Using When run against a couple of sample packages, the results look like:
diff --git a/archive.diff b/archive.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3c12e25b0faa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: aclocal.m4
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: autogen.sh
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: bootstrap
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: .clang-format
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: compile
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: config.guess
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: config.h.in
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: config.sub
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: configure
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: depcomp
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: doc
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: .gitignore
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: install-sh
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: ltmain.sh
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: m4
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: .mailmap
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: Makefile.in
+Only in libunibreak-5.1: missing
+Only in autogenerated/libunibreak-libunibreak_5_1: purge
+Only in libunibreak-5.1/src: Makefile.in
diff --git a/archive.diff b/archive.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1 |
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Need to figure out how to handle the prefix so we don't get a big diff just from the source version number changing. |
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Don't feel rushed to merge this; I'm looking for any input on the approach. |
We only use this for source tree comparison, not part of the build, so don't add it to the upstreams file.
Also include content of added files.
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When you think this is about ready, would you mind squashing it? |
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Highlight files that are different or only present in the release-manager-provided distribution tarballs on GitHub repositories vs. the tarball that GitHub automatically generates for the corresponding tag.