Re: [PATCH] config.txt: move closing "----" to cover entire listing

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2020, 07:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSqF2minprAb2Ss-rE94cWngm7-A-E8uB8XuOnu8SGz_Qg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200409155159.GA4129050@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 17:52, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 05:00:34PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
>
> > At one point I considered trying out diffoscope for this. It should
> > allegedly be good at comparing "everything". But being good at
> > everything, it wanted to pull in a discouragingly large number of
> > dependencies, so I never actually tried it out. It doesn't explicitly
> > claim to know html or manpages (but does mention xml and pdf), so I
> > dunno.
>
> I tried it just now, and it's not that clever. A regular "diff -r" of
> the before and after HTML yields what you'd expect:
>
> A diffoscope diff yields the same, plus it complains about differing
> timestamps on all of the files. I don't think it's doing anything clever
> with respect to HTML formatting.

I see, thanks for trying it out.

Martin