Issues

• Can we reduce import time, which seems to dominate the CLI runtime?

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#374 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Sep 18, 2026
  1

• Attribute list truncation is misleading, and hides differences past the fifth element

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#371 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Bug: HDF5 variable attributes display as byte reprs (b'NASA') in the comparison report

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#370 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Refactor: route color through the Outputter instead of mutating colorama's globals

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#366 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Sep 3, 2026

• Summary tally dictionaries share one difference_types set

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#365 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 30, 2026

• ncompare CLI fails on netCDF files on Linux: h5py is imported before netCDF4

  nasa/ncompare#363 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 30, 2026

• ATL06 comparison test depends on live Earthdata for structure it can get offline

  nasa/ncompare#361 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 26, 2026
  1

• test: pin ATL06 granule version in integration test (exact count drifts on reprocessing)

  testing
  nasa/ncompare#359 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 24, 2026

• Bug: reading root dimensions of a non-netCDF4 HDF5 file can crash (H5DSget_num_scales)

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#357 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• CI: run unit/integration tests on develop- and main-targeted PRs

  github_actions
  nasa/ncompare#355 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Enhancement: add --exit-code to return non-zero when differences are found

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#353 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Refactor: don't compute the returned difference total via a print side effect

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#351 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Robustness: exceptions over assert, lazy attribute reading, honor column widths in truncation

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#349 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Cleanup: remove dead code, de-duplicate variable-property computation, add license headers

  nasa/ncompare#347 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Bug: no_color=True permanently mutates colorama's global Fore/Style state

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#345 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Bug: HDF5 traversal uses wrong file handle and group path prefix

  bug
  nasa/ncompare#341 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Aug 22, 2026

• Improve output display of netCDF groups, when using --only-diffs option and when there are zero variables in a group

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#269 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Dec 10, 2024

• Add a "How to Release" guidance markdown file.

  documentationenhancement
  nasa/ncompare#224 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on May 29, 2024

• Add global attributes to comparison display

  enhancement
  nasa/ncompare#77 · Filter by author danielfromearth opened on Nov 22, 2023