Diaphora, the most advanced Free and Open Source program diffing tool

Re:Diaphora, the most advanced Free and Open Source program ... by antonkar on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:25PM (#36450504)

If you need to compare (and merge) an arbitrary number of files side-by-side, I recommend diffuse https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse

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Re:Diaphora, the most advanced Free and Open Source program ... by muxator on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:48PM (#36451407)

Thanks, just today I decided that the current status of Meld (https://meldmerge.org/) was untenable for me.

It used to be a fast program, with a reasonable interface.

For a long time now its interface has been "simplifed" following GNOME 3's User Interface Guidelines, and everything ended up being hidden inside a hamburger menu.

But what definitely made it untenable was not the UX, but its tendency to crash and being really slow under the slightest load.

I was considering contributing to the project, but honestly a better engineered alternative would be welcome.

Thanks for the info (and thanks Kai Willadsen for Meld).

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Re:Diaphora, the most advanced Free and Open Source program ... by jcul on Saturday June 24, 2023 @01:15AM (#36455790)

diffuse (and meld) are great tools for diffing text files. However, this link seems to be a binary analysis tool for diffing disassembled binaries. It is a plugin for IDA Pro, one of the foremost reverse engineering tools.

So I don't think it is in the same category as diffuse.

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