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mvaload/difference-calculator
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Utility for finding differences in configuration files

v1.0.0(6y ago)111MITPHP

Since May 31Pushed 6y agoCompare

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### Difference Calculator

[](#difference-calculator)

[![Maintainability](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/16edefdbaa30587f0971a15cf8fbc2d09a3ddb2abed9a178faa09a8ed6355c29/68747470733a2f2f6170692e636f6465636c696d6174652e636f6d2f76312f6261646765732f36313563633365373538376662653639386164382f6d61696e7461696e6162696c697479)](https://codeclimate.com/github/mvaload/difference-calculator/maintainability) [![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/85a9eb0faf871c07f6228ea7d3e7430d983ea84ac8f551d4586b704221ded4a2/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6d76616c6f61642f646966666572656e63652d63616c63756c61746f722e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/mvaload/difference-calculator)

#### Installing

[](#installing)

To install with composer:

```
composer global require mvaload/difference-calculator

```

#### Description

[](#description)

 A utility for finding differences in configuration files.

#### Utility features:

[](#utility-features)

- Multi-format support
- Generating a report in the form of plain text, pretty and json

#### Example of use:

[](#example-of-use)

```
$ gendiff --format pretty before.yml after.yml

```

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

8

Last Release

2528d ago

Major Versions

v0.6.1 → v1.0.02019-06-12

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c98cd5186f6488619b1abc81f817b46d1eea6e5fac4df06f32d0603267242971?d=identicon)[mvaload](/maintainers/mvaload)

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Top Contributors

[![mvaload](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/24808041?v=4)](https://github.com/mvaload "mvaload (45 commits)")

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Tags

cliparserdata formatsdifference calculator

###  Code Quality

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