Diff Directories and Diff File should include meta information about how it was performed

[tatra603]

Hello,

I would like to ask You to add meta information about how comparison was performed into export to HTML, YAML, JSON, XML output file. In case HTML, these meta information should be foldable (show/hide it).

Meta information should include complete set of Options used for performing both Diff Directories and Diff Files (of course without Navigation and Appearance ones). But it should contain Options like Compare files by, Look inside archives, complete set of relevant File comparison options. Also in case Diff Directories there should be values of used Include files, Exclude files and Exclude folders. Timestamp of start of diff and end of diff would be nice.

The rationale for all of the above is simple. The reader of the protocol needs to know how, by what parameters the comparison was made and when.

Thank You for understanding, Stepan

P. S. These meta information should be also included in case comparison is run by oXygen Scripting tool.

[teo]

Hello Stepan,

We have had discussions related to the topics you mentioned above within our team as well.
So, we will definitely reconsider adding meta information to the diff reports to provide details on how the comparison was performed.

Regards,
Teo