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Re: off-topic: Conversion multi-line diff to single-line
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: off-topic: Conversion multi-line diff to single-line |
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Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:38:33 +0200 (CEST) |
>> Such an output greatly simplifies comparison of large sorted word
>> lists with sparse or systematic insertions, deletions, or changes.
>
> I suggest you using `diff --side-by-side --suppress-common-lines' as
> is or by converting its output to the Diff normal format that would
> be trivial to do from the side-by-side format.
Thanks for the idea, but this is exactly equivalent to a normal diff
output. Note that you can get output like this
> foo1
> foo2
> foo3
> foo4
bar1 <
bar2 <
bar3 <
which is no longer trivial to convert.
Werner
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