[rdiff-backup-users] Requesting feature: --list-increment-changes option

[David]

Hi. At the moment rdiff-backup (1.1.12) has the ability to show the
differences between 2 rdiff-backup sessions.

What I would like is the ability to list changes on a per-increment
changes, over a range of increments. Something similar to the output
of 'git-whatchanged' or 'svn log -v'. What would be nice is to include
the total size of the increment, and the size of the individual
changes in the increment.

I'm thinking of something along these lines:

# rdiff-backup --list-increment-changes .

-------------------------------------------------------
Time: Tue Aug  7 00:00:03 2007
Size: 100 KB

<other stats can go here>

50 KB M test/file1.dat
20 KB M test/file2.dat
10 KB A test/file3.dat
20 KB D test/file4.dat
-------------------------------------------------------
Mon Aug  6 15:44:47 2007
Size: 100 MB

<other stats can go here>

50 MB D test/file5.dat
50 MB D test/file6.dat

-------------------------------------------------------

And so on.

Are there existing scripts to create output as this, or can this be
proposed as a suggestion on the Wiki?

David