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Could you diff a healthy genome and several cancerous genomes and come up with the offending commit?

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Quick take

Abbreviation of different. [Not the same; exhibiting a difference.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of diff gathered in one view.

adjective

Abbreviation of different. [Not the same; exhibiting a difference.]

noun

(climbing) A difficult route.

noun

(slang) Clipping of difference [(uncountable) The quality of being different.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for diff.

adjective

Abbreviation of different. [Not the same; exhibiting a difference.]

noun

(climbing) A difficult route.

noun

(slang) Clipping of difference [(uncountable) The quality of being different.]

noun

(fandom slang) Clipping of difficulty. [The state of being difficult, or hard to do.]

Example sentences

Could you diff a healthy genome and several cancerous genomes and come up with the offending commit?

Shameless plug: DiffPlug can also diff arbitrarily nested zip/tar/gz, runs on Win/Mac/Linux, and supports text/image/other stuff too.

SeeDave, both of those are in the pipeline - along with a diff engine etc.

But maybe something like svn diff | wc -l is a good enough stand-in.

There is another use spurred by React: when you have a new state to represent, you have to diff it against current state to know exactly what changed and work only on this diff.

Many European countries adopted Chip and Pin early on, which reduced fraud rates but not to the point that will explain a 60+% diff.

Soon, you can commit your genetic code to GitHub, then just do git diff master..offspring to see where your kid got his blue eyes from.

The diff does include a summary of the changes.

The diff might bleed a bit on the pattern matching, but as long as you restrict the commit to the single logical change, verification is still pretty easy.

I don't think diff will perform well on two 4gb inputs.

This means that even without much context, such as in a diff (I think there's a quote by Torvalds related to this), or with context but without advanced IDE tools, there's no confusion as to what function is being called.

He'll point at the diff between his crappy but nevertheless, in production stuff and your script as cause for audit, creating a weeks/months long review process (because nobody can find the time, or wants to take the responsibility and the fight).

Quote examples

You're adding the information in "git diff" for the.sql-files for the commit to the comment?

Does it also have a diff mechanism and rerenders on "state" changes?

Is this built on top of the standard Unix "diff" program?

C tooling url would be:.../blog/2015/07/23/additional-c-tooling/ C++ tooling url would be:.../blog/2015/07/23/additional-c-plus-plus-tooling/ And both webpages would be 99% the same and running a diff only shows that string "C language" is replaced with "C++ language".