Top "Diff" questions

The act of identifying differences between two or more files in order to support various software development activities (bug tracking, patch creation, ...)

Diff Algorithm?

I've been looking like crazy for an explanation of a diff algorithm that works and is efficient. The closest I …

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How to make and apply SVN patch?

I would like to make a SVN type patch file for httpd.conf so I can easily apply it to …

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“Diff” an image using ImageMagick

How can I get the difference between two images? I have the original image. Someone has written on an exact …

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How to create a patch for a whole directory to update it?

I know there are several threads on this already, but no one has fully explained exactly how to perform the …

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How to view revision history for Mercurial file?

For a given file in a Mercurial repository, how can you see the revision history? And how can you diff …

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How can I get the diff between all the commits that occurred between two dates with Git?

Or just all the commits that occurred between two dates? In SVN, you could do something like svn diff -r{…

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Diffing between two entire directories/projects in hg or git?

I inherited a project originally stored in CVS with all the revisions. I made quite a few edits, and I'm …

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Is there a Java library that can "diff" two Objects?

Is there a Java utility library that is analogous to the Unix program diff, but for Objects? I'm looking for …

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Using the output of diff to create the patch

I have something like this src/sim/simulate.cc 41d40 < #include "mem/mem-interface.h" 90,91d88 < dram_print_stats_…

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How to count differences between two files on linux?

I need to work with large files and must find differences between two. And I don't need the different bits, …

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