Consider reporting attribute differences when files have not changed
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I recently ran DeltaCode on two ScanCode scans of the same codebase (which happened to be e2fsprogs-1.44.2
). Both scans were run with ScanCode v2.9.2 -- the difference:
- One scan was run with the latest 2.9.2 release.
- The other scan was run from a post-release branch (
new-license-rules
) in which several license-detection rules had been changed from those in the 2.9.2 release.
DeltaCode detected 0 deltas -- if a file's sha1
is the same in the two codebases being compared, the file is treated as unmodified
; and in this case, the sha1
attribute of each file remained unchanged.
However, there may be use cases where detection of a change in some other attribute(s) -- including a ScanCode-specific attribute like the identification/characterization of a license -- would be valuable to the user, perhaps provided through use of an attribute-specific option/flag.