On 30 June 2014 14:56, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > .. even there, there's another issue. With enough memory, the diff
> > itself should be fairly reasonable to do, but we do not have any
> > sane *format* for diffing those kinds of things.
> >
> > The regular textual diff is line-based, and is not amenable to
> > comparing two long lines. You'll just get a diff that says "the two
> > really long lines are different".
> >
> > The binary diff option should work, but it is a horrible output
> > format, and not very helpful. It contains all the relevant data
> > ("copy this chunk from here to here"), but it's then shown in a
> > binary encoding that isn't really all that useful if you want to say
> > "what are the differences between these two chromosomes".
>
> There is also --word-diff[=<mode>] word-based textual diff, and I
> think one can abuse --word-diff-regex=<regex> for character-based
> diff... or maybe not, as <regex> specifies word characters, not words
> or word separators.
Yes, I have this alias defined:
dww = diff --word-diff --word-diff-regex=.
It creates nice diffs on a character level. Sometimes specifying
--patience to this helps.
-- Øyvind
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