[Tutor] how can I compare a local directory or file with a remote one

[Norman Khine]

It depends what you want to compare. Here we use Git http://git.or.cz/
it is written in python and basically you can have two repositories on
the different machines, and track the changes. Obviously if you make a
change on a file, this change has to be commited before it can be
accounted for. perhaps it is of help.

Richard Querin wrote:
> I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
> command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to
> identify the changes in the files within that directory.
> 
> I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command
> in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to create
> a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any way in
> python to do a similar thing but without having to download a copy of
> the remote files/directories?
> 
> Any ideas?
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