From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 14:50:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06447 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA06202 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15052; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:47:21 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id QAA08195; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:46:50 -0600 Message-ID: <19971222164649.14658@right.PCS> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:46:49 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone remember this (diff) program? References: <349EDB18.59E2B600@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <349EDB18.59E2B600@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Dec 12, 1997 at 01:26:48PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 12, 1997 at 01:26:48PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, > someone gave a reference (in the 1993 timeframe) to a graphical diff > program they had written. > It also (I think) could do merges, but the saliant feature that I > remember was that each file had a side-bar, that represented th > whole file, with parts that differed being shown on orange, with > lines indicating which unchanged (blue) section corresponded with > which (blue) section in the side-bar of the other file. Yeah, I remember something like this: it had the cute feature of each diff having a number, and clicking on the number actually merged the diff into the correct spot in the other file. However, IIRC, it was commercial software, from Clearcase|Pure, or maybe some other vendor. -- Jonathan