What does “windowed streaming” stand for?
So I was asking around the Mercurial development mailing list about binary diffing and patch handling and I got the following examples:
How do most sync programs monitor file changes?
Do sync programs like Dropbox typically track file changes by doing byte by byte comparisons, or using hashes, or using diff / keeping local commit logs like version control, or what?
How does a binary delta update work?
Both Android and iOS seem to support their application having a binary delta update. But how does it work? I build a binary program, neither of the distribution sites have the source code – how does the update process know what is changed?
How to write a program that diffs on hierarchy changes? [closed]
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Can we reduce confusion in line-based diff tools by annotating the code with some unique tokens?
Let’s say I have
Can we reduce confusion in line-based diff tools by annotating the code with some unique tokens?
Let’s say I have
Can we reduce confusion in line-based diff tools by annotating the code with some unique tokens?
Let’s say I have
Can we reduce confusion in line-based diff tools by annotating the code with some unique tokens?
Let’s say I have
Can we reduce confusion in line-based diff tools by annotating the code with some unique tokens?
Let’s say I have
What is the algorithm for selecting the lines to show in a diff patch?
If I have two files, I’ve used the myer’s distance algorithm to find the insert/del/equal lines between the two files.