NAME

fm_diff_config - Analyzes the differences between two config files.

VERSION

version 0.5.0

SYNOPSIS

fm_diff_config [options] [PATH_TO_CONFIG_1.PRO] PATH_TO_CONFIG_2.PRO

Options:

--help             -h   Prints this help.
--version               Prints current version.
--verbose          -v   The verbose level. 0 - least output, 2 most output (Default: 1).
--quiet            -q   Quiet (Same as -v 0).
--changed          -c   Print changed options (Regardless of verbose level)
--ignore-paths     -p   Ignore all changes, which containes only paths as option values
                        The default is to print those changes in magenta.
                        (Useful comparing old and new standard options (see above))
--case-insensitive -i   Ignores all changes, with same value, but different cases (e.g. YES and yes)
                        The default is to print those changes in cyan.
--description      -d   Displays the description of each printed option.
                        Only available, if a database can be queried.
--added            -a   Print added options (Regardless of verbose level)
--removed          -r   Print removed options (Regardless of verbose level)
--changelog        -l   Create a trac wikiformated changelog entry (e.g. for SVN Commit messages)
--binary           -b   Treat files as binary files. If set, the MD5 digests are compared to test whether
                        both files are identical or not.

If no first config file is given, it tries to figure out the correct installation with help of $ENV{PATH}.

Example:

fm_diff_config c:\proeWildfire4\text\config.pro c:\proeWildfire5\text\config.pro

Or to display the differences between to config files with all default options (see Description)

fm_diff_config -qcip CONFIG_OLD CONFIG_NEW

Or to create a commit message within a file call

fm_diff_config -l CONFIG_OLD CONFIG_NEW >> MSG.TXT

DESCRIPTION

fm_diff_config analyzes two config files and displays the differences. Per default (verbose = 1) it prints out all added, removed and changed options. The changed options also contains options, which contains changed paths (colored magenta) or changes which only differs in their written case (like yes and YES; colored cyan). To hide those mostly not relevant changes, use options -p to suppress path changes and -i to disable case sensitivity (At least for displaying changed options). Further on you can use -q to suppress all detailed output and enable only those parts, which you are interested in with appending one or more of the options -a, -c and -r.

To find out how the default values changes from one release to another, just remove your config.pro from your installations, start each version and export a list with all possible options into an file. Afterwards you may call

fm_diff_config -qcip CONFIG_OLD CONFIG_NEW

to display all changed values, which contains no paths and changed more than only its case. To get all new options or removed options, just call it with -qa or -qr.

AUTHOR

Joachim Langenbach <langenbach@imw.tu-clausthal.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by TU Clausthal, Institut fuer Maschinenwesen.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991