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, ...)

How to make svn diff produce file that patch would apply, when svn cp or svn mv was used?

The scenario is: svn cp or mv some file modify that file svn diff > mypatch On other machine (same …

svn merge diff patch
Get changed files from SVN command line between two revisions

I need to get the changed files list between two revisions in SVN. I have used the following command: svn …

svn diff revision
Download Github pull request as unified diff

How can I download the changes contained in a Github pull request as a unified diff?

git version-control github diff
git - diff of current changes before committing

I have changed several files in a git repository, but have not committed them yet. I can get a list …

git ssh diff meld
use Winmerge inside of Git to file diff

Is there a way to use Winmerge inside of git to do Diffs?

git diff msysgit winmerge
Can I make git recognize a UTF-16 file as text?

I'm tracking a Virtual PC virtual machine file (*.vmc) in git, and after making a change git identified the file …

git unicode character-encoding diff utf-16
SVN branch compare

How do I compare one branch with another? I want to compare a branch with the latest revision in trunk.

svn branch diff branching-and-merging
Differences for a certain folder between git branches

As in the title, I want to have a diff file for a certain folder between the master branch and …

git version-control diff git-diff
Check diff against file on the server

I have a working copy of a repository on my machine, and I know that it has been updated on …

svn diff
What are the error exit values for diff?

On the diff man-page I've found these exit values: 0 No differences were found. 1 Differences were found. >1 An error occurred. …

bash shell diff exit-code