Have you looked into Larry Wall's "patch" program? A heavily modified
version of it is distributed by the Gnu Project. It works best with context
diffs produced by programs such as Gnu Diff (and also many Unix diff
programs). It does not work for binary data types, however; you would need
a translator to convert them (in a meaningful way) to text before applying
these tools.
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I'm looking for a product or otherwise available piece of software that will
compare two files and save the differences between the two . . . the deltas.
Then it would have to put them back together: pass it the original
file and the file containing the deltas and it would give you the new
version. Or pass it the new one and the deltas and it would give me the
older version. This would need to be done for all file types.
I've been told CVS might do this, but it uses its own repository. I'd
really like a stand-alone piece of software that just does the work and lets
me store the output whereever I like. Does anyone know if this is possible
with CVS or if there is some other software that does this?
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