From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff-directories - how to ignore timestamps and work recursively Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <878uzcg9j9.fsf@gmx.de> References: <873B4D6F-BF7E-4760-BB3F-13B7F61A8EAB@nf.mpg.de> <20130904074723.GD679@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <87k3ixf2ag.fsf@gmx.de> <92C41085-34D2-4974-8988-41C717B1ECFB@nf.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378290902 20831 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 10:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-list Help To: Stefan Vollmar Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 04 12:35:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VHAQR-0004WU-Sl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHAQR-0003xc-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHAQ7-0003qi-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHAQ2-0002UP-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:52082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHAQ1-0002UC-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([79.230.78.30]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0MGS9o-1VCoou0Rqi-00DKQX for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:34:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <92C41085-34D2-4974-8988-41C717B1ECFB@nf.mpg.de> (Stefan Vollmar's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:54:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:o3+dzHdaEaMXXI6JT1UkkBETN2+iNry4tdTCiUEJU+YRFhb3Fk7 I0ZEchT914/JAS/WgPZZB4p6SjNSJQL6dBgboxlhucIweAKeQSz41gtWtbf7qZnmzfWyxre 6xuVFU/y03pqZWam8sjVFqhXlUc+KnmxXSHz7pIiLTs1rqLSPkc5EYQEiUTRZYxa1KnxKtX kim+CuerlIR4uxi6JbHRg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.22 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93238 Archived-At: Stefan Vollmar writes: > Dear Michael, Hi Stefan, >> That's also my tool of choice. Combined with the key sequene "= h x", >> which shows you only the files which differ. > > that works beautifully, thanks! However, there are a few files in one > directory with no corresponding files in the other directory - they > are easy to miss in my case (1000+ files). I luckily knew about them > so I noticed that ediff-directories does not list them - is that by > design? Yes, AFAIK. If you want to have it changed, you might write a wishlist request via "M-x report-emacs-bug". >> As bonus, it even works for remote directories. > > - courtesy of the extremely useful tramp-package (which we use every > day for editing remote files)? Yes :-) IIRC, we have patched `ediff-same-file-contents' last year in order to make it working for remote directories. So it might work only for Emacs 24.3 or later. > Warm regards, > Stefan Best regards, Michael.