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Package: diffutils; Reported by: Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN>; dated Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:56:02 UTC; Maintainer for diffutils is bug-diffutils@HIDDEN.

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On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN> wrote:
> tags 20250 notabug
> close 20250
> done
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN> wrote:
>> Dear diff-team,
>>
>> this is not a bug but an idea for a diff option in further versions:
>>
>> Idea:
>> comparison of two files by size only.
>>
>> why?
>> makes comparison extremely fast; often no need to compare file contents
>> to get a first hint whether there is a difference at all
>>
>> example:
>> - uploading a folder with a bunch of files to a slow motion cloud;
>> comparing each file by contents is very time consuming (...slow motion
>> cloud)
>> - as a first hint to find out about a possible difference could be the
>> comparison of file size for each file uploaded with the local ones
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but diff already performs the optimization,
> when possible, of detecting when two files have different sizes,
> and in that case does not even bother to open
> (much less read/compare) them.

To clarify: the above is what happens when you use the --brief (-q) option.
It is obviously not the default.




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tags 20250 notabug
close 20250
done

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN> wrote:
> Dear diff-team,
>
> this is not a bug but an idea for a diff option in further versions:
>
> Idea:
> comparison of two files by size only.
>
> why?
> makes comparison extremely fast; often no need to compare file contents
> to get a first hint whether there is a difference at all
>
> example:
> - uploading a folder with a bunch of files to a slow motion cloud;
> comparing each file by contents is very time consuming (...slow motion
> cloud)
> - as a first hint to find out about a possible difference could be the
> comparison of file size for each file uploaded with the local ones

Thanks for the suggestion, but diff already performs the optimization,
when possible, of detecting when two files have different sizes,
and in that case does not even bother to open
(much less read/compare) them.

If you want to simply compare file sizes, you can already
write a tiny shell/perl/python script to obtain and compare
those numbers, so I'm closing this auto-created "issue".
You're welcome to continue the discussion, which is being
archived at http://bugs.gnu.org/20250




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On 03/04/15 14:20, Andreas wrote:
> Dear diff-team,
> 
> this is not a bug but an idea for a diff option in further versions:
> 
> Idea:
> comparison of two files by size only.
> 
> why?
> makes comparison extremely fast; often no need to compare file contents
> to get a first hint whether there is a difference at all
> 
> example:
> - uploading a folder with a bunch of files to a slow motion cloud;
> comparing each file by contents is very time consuming (...slow motion
> cloud)
> - as a first hint to find out about a possible difference could be the
> comparison of file size for each file uploaded with the local ones
> 
> Thanks in advance for integrating this option in future diff versions.
> 
> Great tool, great diff team!
> Andreas Schirra
> wiisses@HIDDEN

It probably doesn't belong in diff(1), but maybe in cmp(1)? For example,
it might be a meaningful semantic for the case of "cmp -n 0", which
currently always says "equal" (-n 0 means compare at most 0 bytes), or
some other variation that isn't currently meaningful, such as "cmp -n -1
<FILE1> <FILE2>" ?

OTOH, you can easily get and compare filesizes in a script already,
for example using "stat --printf=%s <FILE>", and for the case of
synchronising with a slow remote backup, rsync(1) already incorporates
lots of clever ways to reduce the bandwidth of the remote traffic,
including using just the filesize and datestamp to check for (mis-)matches.

.Dave.




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Dear diff-team,

this is not a bug but an idea for a diff option in further versions:

Idea:
comparison of two files by size only.

why?
makes comparison extremely fast; often no need to compare file contents
to get a first hint whether there is a difference at all

example:
- uploading a folder with a bunch of files to a slow motion cloud;
comparing each file by contents is very time consuming (...slow motion
cloud)
- as a first hint to find out about a possible difference could be the
comparison of file size for each file uploaded with the local ones


Thanks in advance for integrating this option in future diff versions.

Great tool, great diff team!
Andreas Schirra
wiisses@HIDDEN







Acknowledgement sent to Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-diffutils@HIDDEN. Full text available.
Report forwarded to bug-diffutils@HIDDEN:
bug#20250; Package diffutils. Full text available.
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