Bug#209373: ITP: comparator -- A program for quickly finding common sections in source trees

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-09
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : comparator
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
* URL             : http://www.catb.org/~esr/comparator/
* License         : see below
  Description     : A program for quickly finding common sections in source trees

This is a program for rapidly finding common segments in large source-code
trees.  comparator chops the specified trees into overlapping shreds, computes
the MD5 hash of each shred, and generates a report listing all cliques of lines
with duplicate hashes.  The program is capable of generating a hash list for a
source code tree which can be used in place of the tree itself.  Thus, it is
possible to do comparisons with source trees without having access to the
actual source code, providing someone who has access is willing to ship you a
hash list.


Note: there is no copyright statement anywhere in the source tree for
comparator.  Given the identity of the author, I think it's safe to assume
he intends to give it some sort of open license, so I'll email him for
details.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wisteria 2.4.20-3-k7 #1 Sun Jul 27 21:10:39 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C