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We have not used an off-the-shelf tool for the following reasons:
- we have not found a command line tool with source code
- python's
filecmp.dircmpAPI (http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/dircmp-objects.html) is pretty close to what we wanted - a specialized home-grown tool provides flexibility for future automations
Limitations
The assumptions explained in the overview can be understood as limitations: treecomp.py overview#Assumptions
Room for improvement
- paths are not normalized
- toy examples can't be run, because there are no scripts to undo the effects, what in turn breaks the unit-tests. (see using treecomp.py#toy use.)