Diff (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Diff" in English language version.

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32web.archive.org

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9gnu.org

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6github.com

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4semanticscholar.org

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2artima.com

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2connect.org.uk

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2stackoverflow.com

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1dartmouth.edu

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artima.com

van Rossum, Guido. "Unified Diff Format". All Things Pythonic. Archived from the original on 2019-12-25. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
Unified Diff Format by Guido van Rossum, June 14, 2006

arxiv.org

Nugroho, Yusuf Sulistyo; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (January 2020). "How different are different diff algorithms in Git?: Use --histogram for code changes". Empirical Software Engineering: 790–823. arXiv:1902.02467. doi:10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z. S2CID 59608676.

catb.org

Eric S. Raymond (ed.), "diff" Archived 2014-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, The Jargon File, version 4.4.7

code.google.com

DaisyDiff, https://code.google.com/p/daisydiff/ Archived 2015-03-19 at the Wayback Machine

colordiff.org

"colordiff". www.colordiff.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-06-14.

connect.org.uk

hpux.connect.org.uk

Nachbar, Daniel W (1999-12-01). "HP-UX Porting and Archiving". UK. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
Nachbar, Daniel W (1988-02-02). "Man page". UK. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2013-06-16.

coodesoft.com

Compare++, http://www.coodesoft.com/ Archived 2011-11-29 at the Wayback Machine

dartmouth.edu

cs.dartmouth.edu

James W. Hunt; M. Douglas McIlroy (June 1976). "An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison" (PDF). Computing Science Technical Report, Bell Laboratories. 41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2015-05-06.

doi.org

E. Myers (1986). "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations". Algorithmica. 1 (2): 251–266. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.4.6927. doi:10.1007/BF01840446. S2CID 6996809.
Webb Miller; Eugene W. Myers (1985). "A File Comparison Program". Software: Practice and Experience. 15 (11): 1025–1040. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.189.70. doi:10.1002/spe.4380151102. S2CID 15489614.
Esko Ukkonen (1985). "Algorithms for Approximate String Matching". Information and Control. 64 (1–3): 100–118. doi:10.1016/S0019-9958(85)80046-2.
Horwitz, Susan (June 1990). "Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 25 (6): 234–245. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.3377. doi:10.1145/93548.93574. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
Yang, Wuu (July 1991). "Identifying syntactic differences between two programs". Software: Practice and Experience. 21 (7): 739–755. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.13.9377. doi:10.1002/spe.4380210706. S2CID 10853673.
Nugroho, Yusuf Sulistyo; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (January 2020). "How different are different diff algorithms in Git?: Use --histogram for code changes". Empirical Software Engineering: 790–823. arXiv:1902.02467. doi:10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z. S2CID 59608676.

github.com

"git: apply.c". Git. 8 May 2023.
"diff-so-fancy". So Fancy. 6 May 2023.
Davison, Dan (8 May 2023). "dandavison/delta". GitHub.
Waugh, Tim (12 June 2020). "twaugh/patchutils". GitHub. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
"xaizek/zograscope". GitHub. 26 May 2020. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
dontcallmedotcom. "spiff". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2013-06-16.

gnu.org

MacKenzie et al. "Binary Files and Forcing Text Comparison" in Comparing and Merging Files with GNU Diff and Patch. Downloaded 28 April 2007. [1] Archived 2017-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
David MacKenzie; Paul Eggert; Richard Stallman (1997). Comparing and Merging Files with GNU Diff and Patch. Bristol: Network Theory. ISBN 978-0-9541617-5-0. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
"Detailed Description of Unified Format". GNU Diffutils (version 3.7, 7 January 2018). Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
2.2.3 Showing Which Sections Differences Are in, GNU diffutils manual
"Incomplete Lines (Comparing and Merging Files)". www.gnu.org.
GNU Diff utilities Archived 2015-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Made available by the Free Software Foundation. Free Documentation. Free source code.
"merge (GNU RCS 5.10.0)". gnu.org. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
"gnu.org". www.gnu.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-09-12.

git.savannah.gnu.org

"patch.c\src - patch.git - GNU patch". git.savannah.gnu.org. In git-style diffs, the "before" state of each patch refers to the initial state before modifying any files,..

groups.google.com

Larry Wall (November 9, 1984). "A patch applier--YOU WANT THIS!!!". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 1457@sdcrdcf.UUCP. Archived from the original on February 19, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
Larry Wall (November 29, 1984). "patch version 1.2--YOU WANT THIS". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 1508@sdcrdcf.UUCP. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
Larry Wall (May 8, 1985). "patch version 1.3". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 813@genrad.UUCP. Archived from the original on February 19, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2015.

ibm.com

alphaworks.ibm.com

xmldiffmerge, http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmldiffmerge Archived 2009-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

microsoft.com

msdn.microsoft.com

xmldiffpatch, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302294.aspx Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine

opengroup.org

pubs.opengroup.org

diff – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from The Open Group
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_403 Archived 2013-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Section 3.206

prettydiff.com

Cheney, Austin. Pretty Diff - Documentation. http://prettydiff.com/documentation.php Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine

psu.edu

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

E. Myers (1986). "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations". Algorithmica. 1 (2): 251–266. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.4.6927. doi:10.1007/BF01840446. S2CID 6996809.
Webb Miller; Eugene W. Myers (1985). "A File Comparison Program". Software: Practice and Experience. 15 (11): 1025–1040. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.189.70. doi:10.1002/spe.4380151102. S2CID 15489614.
Horwitz, Susan (June 1990). "Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 25 (6): 234–245. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.3377. doi:10.1145/93548.93574. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
Yang, Wuu (July 1991). "Identifying syntactic differences between two programs". Software: Practice and Experience. 21 (7): 739–755. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.13.9377. doi:10.1002/spe.4380210706. S2CID 10853673.

semanticdesigns.com

SmartDifferencer, http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer Archived 2009-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

E. Myers (1986). "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations". Algorithmica. 1 (2): 251–266. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.4.6927. doi:10.1007/BF01840446. S2CID 6996809.
Webb Miller; Eugene W. Myers (1985). "A File Comparison Program". Software: Practice and Experience. 15 (11): 1025–1040. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.189.70. doi:10.1002/spe.4380151102. S2CID 15489614.
Yang, Wuu (July 1991). "Identifying syntactic differences between two programs". Software: Practice and Experience. 21 (7): 739–755. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.13.9377. doi:10.1002/spe.4380210706. S2CID 10853673.
Nugroho, Yusuf Sulistyo; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (January 2020). "How different are different diff algorithms in Git?: Use --histogram for code changes". Empirical Software Engineering: 790–823. arXiv:1902.02467. doi:10.1007/s10664-019-09772-z. S2CID 59608676.

sourceforge.net

freshmeat.sourceforge.net

Libenzi, Davide. "LibXDiff". SourceForge FreshMeat. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

stackoverflow.com

Davide (2009-09-28). "stackoverflow". Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
"algorithm - What's the difference between 'git diff --patience' and 'git diff --histogram'?". Stack Overflow. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2020-06-28. This does indeed show that histogram diff slightly beats Myers, while patience is much slower than the others.

tuhs.org

minnie.tuhs.org

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/diff1.c

utah.edu

math.utah.edu

"SPIFF 1". 1988-02-02. Archived from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2013-06-16.

vimhelp.org

Moolenaar, Bram. "Vim documentation: diff". vimdoc.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020. The easiest way to start editing in diff mode is with the "vimdiff" command. This starts Vim as usual, and additionally sets up for viewing the differences between the arguments. vimdiff file1 file2 [file3] [file4] [...file8] This is equivalent to: vim -d file1 file2 [file3] [file4] [...file8]

vimways.org

Brabandt, Christian (1 December 2018). "The power of diff". Vimways. Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

web.archive.org

MacKenzie et al. "Binary Files and Forcing Text Comparison" in Comparing and Merging Files with GNU Diff and Patch. Downloaded 28 April 2007. [1] Archived 2017-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
Eric S. Raymond (ed.), "diff" Archived 2014-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, The Jargon File, version 4.4.7
James W. Hunt; M. Douglas McIlroy (June 1976). "An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison" (PDF). Computing Science Technical Report, Bell Laboratories. 41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
Larry Wall (November 9, 1984). "A patch applier--YOU WANT THIS!!!". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 1457@sdcrdcf.UUCP. Archived from the original on February 19, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
Larry Wall (November 29, 1984). "patch version 1.2--YOU WANT THIS". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 1508@sdcrdcf.UUCP. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
Larry Wall (May 8, 1985). "patch version 1.3". Newsgroup: net.sources. Usenet: 813@genrad.UUCP. Archived from the original on February 19, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
David MacKenzie; Paul Eggert; Richard Stallman (1997). Comparing and Merging Files with GNU Diff and Patch. Bristol: Network Theory. ISBN 978-0-9541617-5-0. Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
"Detailed Description of Unified Format". GNU Diffutils (version 3.7, 7 January 2018). Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
van Rossum, Guido. "Unified Diff Format". All Things Pythonic. Archived from the original on 2019-12-25. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_403 Archived 2013-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Section 3.206
GNU Diff utilities Archived 2015-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Made available by the Free Software Foundation. Free Documentation. Free source code.
"merge (GNU RCS 5.10.0)". gnu.org. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
Moolenaar, Bram. "Vim documentation: diff". vimdoc.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020. The easiest way to start editing in diff mode is with the "vimdiff" command. This starts Vim as usual, and additionally sets up for viewing the differences between the arguments. vimdiff file1 file2 [file3] [file4] [...file8] This is equivalent to: vim -d file1 file2 [file3] [file4] [...file8]
Brabandt, Christian (1 December 2018). "The power of diff". Vimways. Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
"gnu.org". www.gnu.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
"colordiff". www.colordiff.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
Waugh, Tim (12 June 2020). "twaugh/patchutils". GitHub. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
Horwitz, Susan (June 1990). "Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 25 (6): 234–245. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.3377. doi:10.1145/93548.93574. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
Compare++, http://www.coodesoft.com/ Archived 2011-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
SmartDifferencer, http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer Archived 2009-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
"xaizek/zograscope". GitHub. 26 May 2020. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
DaisyDiff, https://code.google.com/p/daisydiff/ Archived 2015-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
xmldiffpatch, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302294.aspx Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
xmldiffmerge, http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmldiffmerge Archived 2009-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
Cheney, Austin. Pretty Diff - Documentation. http://prettydiff.com/documentation.php Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
dontcallmedotcom. "spiff". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
Nachbar, Daniel W (1999-12-01). "HP-UX Porting and Archiving". UK. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
"SPIFF 1". 1988-02-02. Archived from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
Nachbar, Daniel W (1988-02-02). "Man page". UK. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
Davide (2009-09-28). "stackoverflow". Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
Libenzi, Davide. "LibXDiff". SourceForge FreshMeat. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
"algorithm - What's the difference between 'git diff --patience' and 'git diff --histogram'?". Stack Overflow. Archived from the original on 2022-02-19. Retrieved 2020-06-28. This does indeed show that histogram diff slightly beats Myers, while patience is much slower than the others.

wisc.edu

cs.wisc.edu

Horwitz, Susan (June 1990). "Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 25 (6): 234–245. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.3377. doi:10.1145/93548.93574. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2017-11-01.