From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Configuration Management ... on Unix
Date: 1996/06/03
Date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9606032056.AA12276@most> (raw)
> A method of merging deltas was described some years ago.
An interactive method is built into the 'sdiff' command in many Unices.
Look for -o in the man page
> It sounded to me like a really bad idea then, and does now.
> The assumption here is that changes that affect different lines are
> independent.
The additional problem is that most difference algorithms get hopelessly
confused when the changes are more than trivial. (e.g., sections relocated
or blank lines inserted).
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