Ignore certain subdirectories?

[quickfur]

Is there a way to ignore certain subdirectories when recursively comparing directories? E.g., I want to compare /usr/src/project1 and /usr/src/project2 but I want to ignore everything under .git in those directories.

[stephen322]

Not yet.
A work-around for now that I've been using: hardlink copy the directory to a temporary area, then delete the "ignored" directories from there, and dircmp with the modified hardlinked directories.
eg. from /usr/src:
cp -al project1 tmp.project1
rm -rf tmp.project1/.git
dircmp --ar tmp.project1 --br project2
When done: rm -rf tmp.project1

[quickfur]

Pity I'm flying out tomorrow and won't have time to look into this... else I'd take a stab at implementing an --ignore option myself.

And maybe restructure the code a little while I'm at it -- currently gdc is really slow at compiling such a large source file, I wonder if it would speed things up if the code was broken up into smaller files and parallel-compiled. Though that may not help if there are too many dependencies between the pieces.

[stephen322]

Yeah, I should probably split it up...