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Package: wdiff
Version: 0.5-14
Severity: wishlist
Occasionally I get a diff file for a piece of text that I'd like to
convert to a wdiff (to examine the changes). Right now I have to
actually patch the file, then compare the patched version to the
original. However, it seems to me that wdiff could probably generate a
wdiff straight from the diff. This would be pretty convenient for lazy
people :)
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages wdiff depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Package: wdiff
> Version: 0.5-14
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Occasionally I get a diff file for a piece of text that I'd like to
> convert to a wdiff (to examine the changes). Right now I have to
> actually patch the file, then compare the patched version to the
> original. However, it seems to me that wdiff could probably generate a
> wdiff straight from the diff. This would be pretty convenient for lazy
> people :)
>
> Daniel
The problem is that wdiff does not work that way. When you give two
files to wdiff, it creates two temporary files containing each word in
a single line, and only then it takes the diff and it's processed.
What you are asking for is some sort of Artificial Intelligence,
which I think it is outside the scope of this program.
I'm closing this bug, but I'm also Cc:ing the author, just in case he
wants to consider your suggestion.
Thanks.
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