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Directory comparison in Meld but ignoring changes that only involve file timestamp?

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Mar 15, 20268944 views
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I'm using Meld to compare two directories of source code on Ubuntu. However, because all of the files in one of the directories have been 'touched' so that all of their timestamps were updated, Meld is showing them as different, even though the contents of the files have not changed. But I'm only t…

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Fix for: Directory comparison in Meld but ignoring changes that only involve file timestamp?

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The display appears different for files that have different timestamps to those that have really changed Quoted from debian mailing list The current behaviour of meld is such that, a small red dot is used in the right hand bottom corner of the icon …

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