Hiya all, must stir here :-)
Jeff wrote:
So the side-by-side diff tools are wildly different to rdiff. But while we're on the topic, here's meld, which is a *very* sexy take on the genre: http://meld.sourceforge.net/
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
http://meld.sourceforge.net/Yep, but even after all this time, its still not as good as mgdiff, especially the Debian version which has half a dozen of my patches. apt-get install mgdiff
Well I should have a look at these, always willing to see or try new things....
$ sudo apt-get install mgdiff The following extra packages will be installed: lesstif1 The following NEW packages will be installed: lesstif1 mgdiff Need to get 689kB of archives. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Great done.
$ sudo apt-get install meld The following NEW packages will be installed:
desktop-file-utils gconf2 gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libeel2-2 libeel2-data
libfam0c102 libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1
libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1 libgtkhtml2-0
libkrb53 libnautilus2-2 liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsmbclient
libstartup-notification0 meld python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-glade2
python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-numeric python2.3-pyorbit shared-mime-info
0 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 52.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Just for a bloody diff utility! Nah, no thanks Jeff :-)
Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
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