NAME

       TarDiff - Compare two tarballs and report differences

DESCRIPTION

       TarDiff  compares the contents of two tarballs and reports on any differences found between them. Its use
       is mainly for release managers who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have  accidentally  been
       left over or were added by mistake. TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics and suppression
       of GNU autotool changes.

SYNOPSIS

       tardiff [options] file1.tar file2.tar[.gz/.bz2]

OPTIONS

       -m, --modified Report on all changed files, including those present in both tarballs
       -l, --list     List all files, even those not changed at all
       -a, --autoskip Skip files which belong to the GNU autotools (for --modified)
       -s, --stats    Run statistics (diffstat) on all modified files (for --modified)
       -v, --version  Display tardiff version
       -h, --help     Display this help screen

SEE ALSO

       tar(1), tardy(1)

AUTHOR

       TarDiff was written by Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>. This man page was written by Axel Beckert
       <abe@debian.org> based on help2man(1) output for the Debian Project, but may be used by others.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005 Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

       This  program  is  free  software:  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.