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comparator Find common sections in source trees
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Maintainer: fuz@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-02-10 15:43:34
Last Update: 2026-02-10 15:40:38
Commit Hash: b34147d
Also Listed In: devel
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://gitlab.com/esr/comparator/
Description:
comparator is a program for rapidly finding common segments in large source-code trees. See the manual page for instructions. It comes with a filtering postprecessor, filterator.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/comparator-2.13/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/comparator-2.13/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/comparator-2.13/BSD2CLAUSE
  4. bin/comparator
  5. bin/filterator
  6. share/man/man1/compararitor.1.gz
  7. share/man/man1/filteraritor.1.gz
  8. @owner
  9. @group
  10. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • comparator>0:textproc/comparator
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/comparator/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install textproc/comparator
  • pkg install comparator
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: comparator
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1770728200 SHA256 (comparator-2.13.tar.bz2) = f591cd8400bfefec6636bd6c018127bb9b4b341bf3ede21fb43f2c1ebe1f7ede SIZE (comparator-2.13.tar.bz2) = 41704

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Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. asciidoctor : textproc/rubygem-asciidoctor
  2. python3.11 : lang/python311
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
textproc_comparator
USES:
python shebangfix
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://gitlab.com/esr/comparator/-/archive/2.13/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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2.13
10 Feb 2026 15:40:38
commit hash: b34147d672f3a65570f7e8c66a3420b76f4b6fb3commit hash: b34147d672f3a65570f7e8c66a3420b76f4b6fb3commit hash: b34147d672f3a65570f7e8c66a3420b76f4b6fb3commit hash: b34147d672f3a65570f7e8c66a3420b76f4b6fb3 files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/comparator: Find common sections in source trees

comparator is a program for rapidly finding common segments in large
source-code trees. See the manual page for instructions. It comes with
a filtering postprecessor, filterator.

Number of commits found: 1