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Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patchby David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Richard Stallman Paperback (6"x9"), 120 pages |
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This book has received an extremely positive review in Linux User and Developer Magazine:"Well packaged... the quality of information is excellent" --- Linux User and Developer Magazine (Issue 36, Feb 2004)
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This manual describes how to compare and merge files using GNU diff and patch.
It includes an extensive tutorial that guides the reader through all the options of the diff and patch commands. Later chapters cover powerful time-saving techniques such as automatic merging of divergent branches of a source tree.
This is a printed copy of the official GNU diffutils manual. It documents all the diffutils programs (diff, cmp, sdiff, diff3), plus GNU patch. The versions covered are the 2.8 release of GNU diffutils and 2.5 release of patch.
The authors of this manual are the original developers of the GNU diffutils programs.
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Table of Contents
- Overview
- Comparison
- Output Formats
- Incomplete Lines
- Comparing Directories
- Adjusting Output
- diff Performance
- Comparing Three Files
- diff3 Merging
- Interactive Merging
- Merging with patch
- Making Patches
- Invoking cmp
- Invoking diff
- Invoking diff3
- Invoking patch
- Invoking sdiff
- Standards conformance
- Projects
- Copying This Manual
- Index
Articles
- GNU Diff and Patch Quiz - test your knowledge of diff and patch with our quiz!
- Making and Applying Patches - a short introduction to GNU diff and patch
Resources
- GNU Project Diffutils Page
- Tim Waugh's Patchutils Page
- Online Manual - in HTML format