On Tuesday, 2 April 2013 at 10:44:05 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
Nowadays, CSDiff, the compare feature in Notepad++, or good old
fc, depending on what is best for the circumstances. At least
to compare - merging isn't something I've had to do much in my
time.
Is anybody here writing a file-compare tool in D? It would be
interesting to see how good a diffing algorithm we can come up
with. Maybe making use of levenshteinDistanceAndPath.
I once had to compare two very large (GBs in size) files
(filesystem listings). Every diff program I tried crashed
miserably. I wrote my own:
http://dump.thecybershadow.net/7558f727792723efdb159197e50d125f/uniqdiff.d
It's nothing fancy (no std.algorithm), and is greedy (it works on
the assumption that once it finds one line that matches on both
sides, then the diff chunk is over).
