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Richard Kogelnig

Okay so here it goes - Beyond Compare! A trusty companion since many years - and I still learn new tricks!

New trick I learned lately: Rules

I hade a large text with lots of changes I was not interested in and only some changes which are important to me. (Diff over Unity Engine logs for builds with non deterministic prefab packing).

Rules helped me to reject all non-important lines and only search changes in important ones. You can use rules too!

A screenshot of the Beyond compare of a diff of two text files A and B. Every line of A contains the text "this is text". Almost all lines of B have lines of "this is text!" but three are changed to "important !". This highlights that all lines are changed but only some are of interest. Beyond compare marks ALL lines as changed and if this would be a real diff and not a made up example it would be hard to find the important changes.
A screenshot of Beyond compare with the "Rules" window open and a dialog which shows the adding of a regex rule of "^(?:(?!important).)*$" - marking each line which does not contain "important" as not being relevant to the diff
A screenshot of the applied regex rule of "^(?:(?!important).)*$" - only lines containing "important" on the right side of the comparison (B) are marked to have changed from "this is a text" in A - this helps a lot when searching for same changes in a large file with a lot of changes.
Sep 05, 2023, 07:04 PM·Public
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Paralax^SD

@RichardKogelnig I'm so glad bc exists, it pretty much makes my life easier any day of the week.
What I learned recently about it was that bc had this nifty reporting feature. You can compare two directories and generate standalone HTML web pages in various styles. Very handy to point out unversioned changes to pretty clueless clients, among other things :)

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ackack

@RichardKogelnig Love Beyond Compare! Such a great tool.

I use it frequently for comparing directories.

Years ago I even wrote a journal article about its image comparison capabilities 😆

#BeyondCompare#diff
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