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Merging two reports together

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading the existing command-line tool documentation and report-processing entry points to determine whether merging is already supported. Define the expected behavior for combining Report-A.spdx and Report-B.spdx, then document or test the result once the merge workflow is established.

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Description

enhancement

Is this tool able to merge to reports together. For example, Report-A.spdx and Report-B.spdx`?

Dominant language
Java
Stars
101
Forks
46
Avg merge
9h 43m
Merged PRs (30d)
8

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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