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On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, John Doty wrote:
> If you’re just making changes until a diff shows nothing, it doesn’t 
> matter whether you make them upstream or downstream. Just quit when you 
> have a match!

This sounds reasonable to me.  So the common denominator is to load a 
"target netlist" into gschem and show the differences between the current 
state and the target state, either by highlighting them in the schematic 
or by showing a diff?  This shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

> nearly all of the unnamed nets changed their names in this case

A clever diff algorithm would have to compare connectivities independently 
of net names, so the remaining net name changes could easily be ignored.

Roland

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