DESCRIPTION

TarDiff compares the contents of two tarballs and reports on any differences found between them. Its use is mainly for release managers who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have accidently been left over or were added by mistake. TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics and suppression of GNU autotool changes.

SYNOPSIS

tardiff [options] file1.tar file2.tar[.gz/.bz2]

OPTIONS

-m, --modified Report on all changed files, including those present in both tarballs

-l, --list List all files, even those not changed at all

-a, --autoskip Skip files which belong to the GNU autotools (for --modified)

-s, --stats Run statistics (diffstat) on all modified files (for --modified)

-v, --version Display tardiff version

-h, --help Display this help screen

AUTHOR

TarDiff was written by Josef Spillner <[email protected]>. This man page was written by Axel Beckert <[email protected]> based on help2man(1) output for the Debian Project, but may be used by others.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005 Josef Spillner <[email protected]>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.