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Tool to visualize output of diff ?

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Ishan

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Jun 26, 2009, 4:49:50 AM6/26/09
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Hi,

Is there a tool that we can pass the output of the standard 'diff'
utility as input and then view it side-by-side as in, for example,
tkdiff?

In other words, I want to do something like this.

$ diff file1 file2 > report
$ some_diff_viewer --input_file=report

The requirement is to generate "diff" reports and store them for
possible later inspection using a visual tool. The broader requirement
is tracking changes to a source repository.

tkdiff, WinMerge etc. don't seem to support such an option. I'm
looking for a 'nix or web-based utility.

Thanks,
Ishan.

Chris McDonald

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Jun 26, 2009, 6:19:33 AM6/26/09
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Ishan <ishan....@gmail.com> writes:

>Is there a tool that we can pass the output of the standard 'diff'
>utility as input and then view it side-by-side as in, for example,
>tkdiff?


This may not enthuse non-vi users, but I frequently use vimdiff:

http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/diff.html

I'm sure there'll be some 'competing' emacs product, as well.

--
Chris.

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