Re: [Monotone-devel] I need a better diff

[Ethan Blanton]

Hendrik Boom spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I'm in the position of needing a better diff -- I have multiple
> versions of text files. I need to compare them, and of course diff is
> led hopelessly astray by the fact that small changes in a paragraph
> have caused line breaks to move to different places.  Since many typos
> have been corrected between versions (I don't even know which versins
> are newer), there is little for diff to synchronise on although the
> files are very similar, except for blank lines, which does no good at
> all and just leads it further astray.

While it isn't what monotone uses, GNU wdiff (available on any GNU
archive) is made precisely for this.  I use it regularly when syncing
papers with coauthors for this very reason.

Ethan

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