Questions tagged [diff]
Software to compare any two or more data sets. Data sets may be text, lists of files/folders, CSV data, XML data, binary data, or any other structured or non-structured form of data.
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How to store diffs of huge zip files instead of full updated zip files
Assume you've used Google Takeout (or a similar data export feature of another platform) to export your data into massive zip files.
You've downloaded 200+ GB of data from Google, broken into many zip ...
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Visually compare staging and production websites for QA
Before deploying code changes to the production website, I would like to automatically compare the staging and production websites visually to make sure things did not break (our changes did not have ...
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Is there a program for generating a "diff" file of 2 directories, containing all the "changes" but none of the original directory's file contents?
I've been making some modifications to a proprietary open source software (upon purchase the software ships with the source code but its not "shareware").
I would like to be able to share my ...
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Multi-file diff'ing - program, plug-in, or just algorithm
I'm finding myself in a workflow where I need to keep track of the differences of several very similar but not exactly same files. The diff command, as well as the mode of the same name in GNU Emacs ...
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Is there a yaml diff tool whose output can be used as input to a yaml patch tool?
There are various yaml-patching tools, e.g. ytt, cels, yamlpatch, and yq. These take as input a yaml document and a patch specification, and output the yaml document that results from applying the ...
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Is there a (command line) tool to calculate percentage change between two files of the same format full of numbers?
Is there a (command line) tool to calculate percentage change between two files of the same format full of numbers?
Example:
File A:
100 100
File B:
150 70
Invocation:
$ calc_perc_change A B
+50% -...
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File comparison: Character level compare with side-by-side merge functionalities
I am looking for a software or other solution where I can compare text files at the character level and have a side-by-side view where I can apply changes (on the character level!) from one side to ...
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Is there any command line application that can tell me if 2 video files are the same?
I downloaded a bunch of photos and movie files from my iPhone into a folder on my PC. Then I redownloaded them to a different folder on my PC. Then I diffed the 2 folders, and some of the photos and ...
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GUI git mergetool for Mac/OSX with dark mode, 3 panels, and allows editing local/remote?
I am currently use meld and it seems to have performance issues on Mac/OSX that I don't experience on linux. I've noticed a surprising number of meld alternatives are really poor quality and un-usable ...
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elementwise-diff utility for (simple) structures of data
Suppose I have a data structure made up of, say, a 32-bit floating-point value and a 32-bit integer values. Now suppose I have two files with a million of these structures in each. For simplicity let'...
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Command line tools to do a diff of csv/tsv files?
I work on a bioinformatics tool that produces large TSV files with many (~100) and long (~5-200 char) columns. Getting a whole line from a normal diff is overwhelming. It's more important to have the ...
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Visual diff patch editor
Looking for some editor for complex Git merge commits.
Is there some editor where you can work with patch, edit all files at once, move changed blocks, etc.
Thinking about interactive diff2html:
add ...
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Create a report that tracks changes on a web page
PROBLEM
I live in Lausanne, Switzerland, and I would like to buy a home in the next years or so. The market is so hot that as soon as a new home is on the market it gets sold in days. Hence I would ...
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Software showing detailed differences in files given two directories
What I want:
recursively compare all files which are in both directories
option to ignore multiple specific directories (e.g. node_modules and .git)
highlighting of differences on word/character ...
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Diff Tool That Ignores Newlines
Looking for a diff tool (preferably with GUI, for Windows, and free, but others are welcome too) that can ignore newlines, so diffs that are only lines joined or broken are ignored. It should also ...
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