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- verb Present participle of
diff .
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The tool takes snapshots of an organization's system and compares "diffing" these to identify changes.
Site Home sdl 2011
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Since when does Notepad have concurrent editing? revision history with diffing? bookmarks, comments, tables, TOC, headers and footers, styles?
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I have found that most VCS clients have robust diffing utilities and can be used very effectively in finding newly introduced bugs.
Vital Free Software For Computing Students : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2008
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Blackstone is contacting the rightsholders for all its titles notifying them that they'll be releasing their catalog in DRM-free MP3 (with some kind of watermarking -- I'm skeptical that this will work to stop pirates, since all imperceptible watermarks can be trivially removed through simple means like diffing two files) format unless they hear otherwise by a certain date.
Boing Boing 2008
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Also a note about version control, if you commit often when your project is functioning correctly, you can easily track down where you introduced an error by diffing with the most recent revision in the repository.
Vital Free Software For Computing Students : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2008
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I haven't seen even visual diffing, let alone merge between formats (binary or textual, doesn't matter)
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DarunGrim is a diffing tool which provides binary diffing functionality.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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A little risky, maybe, but all my files are under version control (which takes care of the diffing, as well).
MacOSXHints.com 2010
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· Subversion is equally efficient on binary as on text files, because it uses a binary diffing algorithm to transmit and store successive revisions.
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· Stroy allows to configure viewing programs, file diffing programs and diff strategies per file type.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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