Visual diff tool?

Brian Gaynor briang at pmccorp.com
Fri Jan 28 17:56:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:57 +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'd like to compare the packages installed on two different systems, and
> have them presented in a nice way. So far I've done
> 
> rpm -qa | sort > packages_box1.txt
> 
> on both boxes and then used diff to compare them, but I'd like to have
> the diff presented visually if possible (very much like Cervisia
> presents diffs between CVS revisions).

The open source editor jedit (http://jedit.org) has a nice visual diff
plugin. I use it when updating packages where I need to migrate config
settings.

Brian





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