Table of Contents

Overview
1. What Comparison Means
2. diff Output Formats
3. Comparing Directories
4. Making diff Output Prettier
- 4.1 Preserving Tabstop Alignment
- 4.2 Paginating diff Output
5. diff Performance Tradeoffs
6. Comparing Three Files
7. Merging From a Common Ancestor
8. Interactive Merging with sdiff
- 8.1 Specifying diff Options to sdiff
- 8.2 Merge Commands
9. Merging with patch
10. Tips for Making Patch Distributions
11. Invoking cmp
- 11.1 Options to cmp
12. Invoking diff
- 12.1 Options to diff
13. Invoking diff3
- 13.1 Options to diff3
14. Invoking patch
15. Invoking sdiff
- 15.1 Options to sdiff
16. Incomplete Lines
17. Future Projects
- 17.1 Suggested Projects for Improving GNU diff and patch
- 17.2 Reporting Bugs
Concept Index

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