[SyncEvolution] "Comparison was impossible" "

[Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:18 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> On 28/04/17 10:05, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:31 +0200, Vincent wrote:
> >> Could you tell me more about synccompare?
> > 
> > In the syncevolution.org packages, it is under /usr/bin/synccompare.
> > It's a perl script that takes two database dumps and compares them,
> > similar to a diff between text files.
> 
> I find it to be of variable usefulness. It is great when it works, but
> in my experience it scales horribly.

I just use it on a laptop and it works for me, but I agree that it's
mostly a hack originating in the automated testing. There's even a bug
open for rewriting it...

> I think I always see "comparison was impossible" with refreshes. I
> assumed that is because the databases are deleted or something (although
> thinking about it further I am not sure that is a reasonable expectation).

There should be "before" and "after" dumps also for refreshes, so this
has to be something else.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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