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betareading, easy way to showcase the proposed changes?

Discussion in 'General' started by preier, Jan 11, 2020.

  1. preier

    preier I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    hi.

    Could anyone recommend a way to easily extract the differences when you have both the original version and the proposed amended version?

    both winmerge and notepad(compare plugin) apparently show both version side by side but i'd like to extract the actual changes only.

    if anyone has any tool (or method other than before/after) to suggest, thanks in advance.
     
  2. jo demon

    jo demon Undertale, Yay

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    Google doc's shows edits off to the side.
     
  3. preier

    preier I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Ok, that's a good suggestion for the future, thanks. Anything for the 'two files' case which i'm in?
     
  4. jo demon

    jo demon Undertale, Yay

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    Not off the top of my head
     
  5. tilkau

    tilkau Not too sore, are you?

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    .. I mean that's what 'diff' is for, it's.. basically the first reliable commandline tool for this kind of thing.
    `diff filea fileb`. Possibly with -u option which IMO produces easier to understand output.

    Which I understand you probably don't have easy access to, being a Windows user and all.. but it seems pretty funny to me, because diff probably predated and inspired WinMerge.

    I understand that installing Cygwin might be necessary to get diff running on a Windows system.

    That said, Meld and other visual diff programs (that I know as a Linux user) have a 'format as patch' option which does what you want. Maybe WinMerge does too if you look for it under the right name?

    If you manage to produce a patch, you can throw it in a syntax highlighter (eg. diffy.org ) so that it's more easy to read.
     
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  6. preier

    preier I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    No linux/unix at home, indeed. And working for a bank means passing files from work to home is a quick way to get hostile attention ;)
     
  7. tilkau

    tilkau Not too sore, are you?

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    .. why would passing files around between sites be involved (that is, any more than merely using WinMerge and somehow getting your hypothetical 'file containing only the differences' out of it would involve passing around files)?

    ..I guess I assumed you would email yourself the result. Which is functionally equivalent to 'transferring a file', but, you know, could be done with notepad and copy/paste, no attachments. Kind of highlights how weak that security measure seems, to me.

    Anyway there do seem to be online tools like https://text-compare.com/ , if 'not passing around files' is really what you want. Found it in a quick search of 'online diff tool'.
     
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  8. MizMahem

    MizMahem Wholesomely Lewd

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    Google docs is 110% what you want, long term. There is no better text collaboration tool for simple stuff like this. None.