Difference Viewer custom object name: include suffix __c, __x, __mdt, __e, etc
When you look in the Difference Viewer, it is not clear at all by inspection which line of Metadata Type "Custom Object" is a standard object, custom object, platform event, custom metadata type, historcial trending object, etc.
For example, Custom object Foo__c displays simply in the Name column as Foo. This is a loss of information in the difference viewer, especially if one has similarly-named custom object metadata types such as:
Fooc
Foose
FooConfig__mdt
these display as
Foo
Foos
FooConfig
The full Sobject Name gives the user hints as to perhaps other related components that need to be deployed (perhaps inadvertently omitted by the comparison filters) - such as layouts, permissions, custom metadata type values, etc.
Eric Kintzer
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also, include namespace, if any