Re: Compare directories without subdirectories

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 26 July 2018 at 16:43, Jonathan Belsewir via meld-list
<meld-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Meld-Team,
>
> Sometimes I want to compare two directories without subdirectories.
> The best way would be a new option to allow that
> like in Windows "windiff.exe"  option "-d".
>
> My workaround for the time being is:
> mkdir tmp1
> mkdir tmp2
>
> cp dir1/*  tmp1
> cp dir1/.* tmp1
>
> cp dir2/*  tmp2
> cp dir2/.* tmp2
>
> meld tmp1 tmp2
>
> Maybe someone know a better wordaround
> without changing the sources?

There's no option for doing that in Meld (and without an elegant UI, I
wouldn't want there to be).

However, I'm not sure that I understand what the goal is here. I think
you're basically asking for folder comparison to not descend into
directories? Are the subdirectories too big to compare or something?

cheers,
Kai