Hi, I need to implement a Diff algorithm in VB.NET to find the changes between two different versions of a piece of text. I've had a scout around the web and have found a couple of different algorithms. Does anybody here know of a 'best' algorithm that I could implement? Thanks, - Chris...
I'm doing a survey for the best SQL change script generators out there, specifically for MS SQL Server. I do know of Redgate SQL Compare, but I'd like to know what others use, and if there are free versions of such software that I could try. Any suggestions? ...
For all my present Diff / Merge needs I'm using [Beyond Compare][1]; when I decided to buy a license for it I tried other similar tools, both payware and freeware. Now BC is at version 3, and I think it's a great tool... but what are your experience in this field? Do you think there is something better? And what are the feature you like...
If you have two versions of the same report (.rpt) and you want to establish what the exact differences are, what is the best way to go about this? I've seen some commercial tools to do this, but I'm not too interested in forking out cash for something that should be relatively straight forward. Can I hook into the Crystal API and simply...
My company has a number of relatively small Access databases (2-5MB) that control our user assisted design tools. Naturally these databases evolve over time as data bugs are found and fixed and as the schema changes to support new features in the tools. Can anyone recommend a database diff tool to compare both the data and schema from ...
I'm interested in seeing a good diff algorithm, possibly in Javascript, for rendering a side-by-side diff of two HTML pages. The idea would be that the diff would show the differences of the rendered HTML. To clarify, I want to be able to see the side-by-side diffs as rendered output. So if I delete a paragraph, the side by side view wo...
How do I make diff ignore temporary files like foo.c~? Is there a configuration file that will make ignoring temporaries the default? More generally: what's the best way to generate a "clean" patch off a tarball? I do this rarely enough (submitting a bug fix to an OSS project by email) that I always struggle with it... EDIT: OK, the sh...
I need to diff two log files but ignore the time stamp part of each line (the first 12 characters to be exact). Is there a good tool, or a clever awk command, that could help me out? ...
I receive HTML pages from our creative team, and then use those to build aspx pages. One challenge I frequently face is getting the HTML I spit out to match theirs exactly. I almost always end up screwing up the nesting of <div>s between my page and the master pages. Does anyone know of a tool that will help in this situation -- someth...
In Subversion you can specify a range of versions to get an aggregate view of a series of commits. Is this possible in git? If so, how? ...
I'd like to script, preferably in rake, the following actions into a single command: Get the version of my local git repository. Git pull the latest code. Git diff from the version I extracted in step #1 to what is now in my local repository. In other words, I want to get the latest code form the central repository and immediately ge...
A good XML diff tool: - Has a clear, node driven, GUI - Accepts Command line (For easy Version Control integration) - Can handle large files - Is low cost ...
I'm needing to check the differences between two XMLs but not "blindly", Given that both use the same DTD, I'm actually interested in verifying wether they have the same amount of elements or if there's differences. ...
Hi, Are there any open source algorithms in c# that solve the problem of creating a difference between two text files? It would be super cool if it had some way of highlighting what exact areas where changed in the text document also. ...
In order to merge independant HTML changes, I'm looking for recomendations for a 3-way comparison / merge library for HTML. The common 3-way text merge algorithms perform poorly because they do not understand the tree like structure of HTML and XML. Of course, such a library must understand the looser syntax of HTML, i.e. tags are not ...
I got to thinking about how annoying messy merges can be and was wondering if there are any language aware diffing tools that go beyond the typical language-aware features of comment skipping and case sensitivity. Seems like the diffing engine could infer a lot more if it were aware of the syntax of what it is diffing instead of just tr...
I'm working on a project with a team where we check in early and often. Individual checkins are completed to the satisfaction of the developer doing the change (including tests where possible) but sometimes the direction of work changes slightly and previous commits need to be reverted and done another way. Or, stub code is filled out in...
I would like to replicate this in python: gvimdiff <(hg cat file.txt) file.txt (hg cat file.txt outputs the most recently committed version of file.txt) I know how to pipe the file to gvimdiff, but it won't accept another file: $ hg cat file.txt | gvimdiff file.txt - Too many edit arguments: "-" Getting to the python part... # hg...
Is there a ruby library that will take two strings or two arrays and return the difference between the two strings/arrays? ...
In this post I asked if there were any tools that compare the structure (not actual content) of 2 HTML pages. I ask because I receive HTML templates from our designers, and frequently miss minor formatting changes in my implementation. I then waste a few hours of designer time sifting through my pages to find my mistakes. The thread of...