nfroidure/gulp-iconfont

Fontfiles binary diffs without changins sources

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thybzi commented

We're using gulp-iconfont on several projects, generating ttf and woff font formats.

The same thing happens at all of them: after regenerating fonts without any source SVG changes produces binary diff on both woff and ttf.

Is that meta info, timestamp, or whatever?

That can be safely ignored on projects with generated files gitignored, but not on github jekyll projects that cannot run gulp on deploy, and thus need those binary to be committed.

How can I disable this diff? Thanks in advance.

Here is a sample binary diff of woff file.

woff_binary_diff

thybzi commented

Thanks for an answer.
First, timestamp seems to be svg2ttf option, then how does it affect woff file?
Second, I already tried to set this option to null, both font files keep changing every time (file checksum also differs).

nfroidure commented

Just set it to a timestamp. That's all you have to know to solve your issue. If you want more informations, you can read the code but i already spend enough time on real issues. You can also ask StackOverflow.

thybzi commented

Setting timestamp option to 0 (which is valid Unix timestamp) solves the problem.
Thanks!