That seems roughly equivalent to my solution, except that I would be putting 4 bytes on each line instead of 1 (repeating each byte on 4 consecutive lines, i.e., if the sequence is ABCDEF... the lines would be ABCD, BCDE, CDEF etc.).
Gerardo Il giorno dom 18 nov 2018 alle ore 19:09 David A. Wheeler <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > On November 18, 2018 12:29:39 PM EST, Gerardo Ballabio > <[email protected]> wrote: > >Richard Parkins wrote: > >> Most binary file comparators just compare bytes, which doesn't detect > >deletions or insertions. > > My personal workaround is to generate 1 byte in hexadecimal on each line, and > then use regular diff -u. Diff is quite good at detecting insertions and > deletions. This approach is a total failure if there are internal pointers, > since slight differences in length can produce a vast number of differences. > But in some cases it works well enough, and it is super simple to do. > > > --- David A.Wheeler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list To change your subscription options, visit https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/listinfo/rb-general. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected].
