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calculates the differences between two zipfiles

ZipDiff compares two .zip (.jar, .war, .jar) files and creates a list of differences. Plain text, .xml, .html and even a .zip file are supported as output formats.

ZipDiff can be executed as command line tool or ant task.

Command line arguments

java -jar zipdiff.jar -file1 foo.zip -file2 bar.zip [ options]

Valid options are:

--comparecrcvalues compares the crc values instead of the file content --comparetimestamps compares timestamps instead of file content --ignorecvsfiles ignores differences in CVS folders --outputfile name of the output file --skipoutputprefixes n number of path segment to skip in the output file --skipprefixes1 n number of path segment to skip in the first file --skipprefixes2 n number of path segment to skip in the second file --exitwitherrorondifference use an error code other than 0, if differences have been detected --verbose print detail messages

This version can be found at https://github.com/nhnb/zipdiff

The original zipdiff project was developed by Sean C. Sullivan and James Stewart at http://zipdiff.sourceforge.net/

License: see LICENSE.txt