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  • From: Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Diff utilities?
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:52:04 -0500

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:26 PM, burnett AT pobox.com wrote:
FileMerge, included in the Developer's Tools that ships with OS X.

+1, FileMerge is a beautiful tool, legacy stuff from the NeXT era I believe. It does a nice job of showing differences in a way that makes sense to non-coders:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/2006/05/02/graphics/figure9.jpg

By the way, all the tools mentioned so far are for plain-text files only, hope that's what you're looking for. (Binary files are hard to diff without intimate knowledge of their internals.)

=jimA=

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