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April 14, 2005
Invaluable to Development
Everybody that's ever done development on *nix knows what diff is. It allows you to see the difference between 2 files or directories and makes it very easy to create patches. We use another tool called Beyond Compare that uses the same concept but adds a great interface to it. It can compare code and is smart enough to ignore differences such as whitespace.
We've used in quite a few different scenarios. It's useful for comparing the database schemas in 2 different systems. Or, if you have to copy _a lot_ of files from one system to another you can generate a list of all files and their sizes (or even md5sum if you're that paranoid) and run a compare between the 2 systems.
TortoiseCVS even integrates with it, but that's another post.
See more at http://www.scootersoftware.com/
Posted by Sarel Botha on April 14, 2005 08:59 AM
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