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(Bash) Diff and Patch - blackthorne

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:31:30 GMT

If you make contributions as a coder or else if you want to apply them in your code you will probably stumble upon '''diff''' and '''patch '''tools. They are frequently used in the Open Source Software specially on the Linux kernel. So, let's say you took some code, made some adjustments/improvements of your own and you want to share it to everyone else. One way is to share all the files you changed which shall be replaced by whoever wants to try your changes. This process requires more data and resources and doesn't make it very clear to everyone who his interested in understanding the differences before submitting your code. Besides if someone else makes some change on one or more of these files, sharing the complete files would replace your changes even if they were done in different parts of the code. So, for serious development you should embrace this option and try the diff/patch way.

(Bash) Svn diff no white space - yisreldov

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:17:42 GMT

shows diff while ignoring white spaces

(Bash) Recursive dir comparison - alejandrosuch

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:34:28 GMT

(Bash) Compare directories via diff - alvarezrilla

Tue, 04 May 2010 05:03:13 GMT

(Bash) Compare the state of web pages with a previous state - ascarion

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:21:05 GMT

This can be used to check if an update of a CMS (or blog, plugin, ...) changed something in the frontend (content or HTML). Run the script with the file that contains the urls as parameter: `wiff.sh urllist.txt` urllist.txt contains the urls one per line. The snapshots are stored in "~/wiff" by default. You can use diff instead of wdiff: `wiff.sh -c diff urllist.txt`

(Bash) function for grepping a string in every diff between two successional svn revisions of a file - hacker

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:01:17 GMT

usage: dgrep foo svn://my-svn-server/trunk/my-file.txt

(Bash) Copy new/changed files from one folder to another - jmiller

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:07:04 GMT

This is useful for upgrading Drupal modules, etc.

(Bash) Create patch file - hoffstein

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:31:06 GMT

Patches are created using the diff program. When making patches, please use the -u option, or if your diff doesn't support it, -c. Ordinary (context-free) diffs are notoriously prone to errors, since line numbers tend to change when others make changes to the same source file.

(Bash) Patch between different directories - Juanje

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:58:42 GMT

(Bash) Compare Directories Using Diff - tylerhall

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:06:10 GMT

This command compares two directories and shows you any files that differ between the two. It also shows how to exclude unimportant files like .DS_Store and Thumbs.

(Bash) How to create patches using diff - basicmagic

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:56:34 GMT