Description =========== A collection of small tools for comparing and mergin ics calendar files. The two wrapper scripts compare_ics.sh and merge_ics.sh rely on the python program sort_ics.py to generate a normalized view of calendar files before starting an external compare / merge tool. They also filter out typically conflicting lines in the ics files, like time stamps for the container files. Those are regenerated for the merged file. Also typical violations of the ics standard are taken out (illegal timestamps from before 1900 typically created by korganizer and outlook). Otherwise the underlying python library for parsing the ics files chokes. Usage ===== I use those scripts for syncing my calendar files between several machines. They also live in a git repository. Above mentioned scripts are used as merge tool for git: .gitattributes contains this line: -------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------- *.ics merge=git-merge-ics -------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------- They can also be used for manual comparison and merging, obviously. Dependencies ============ The python tools needs the icalendar library from here: http://codespeak.net/icalendar/