diff --git a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py index 2ba5e537059..4767d1f0113 100755 --- a/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py +++ b/Tools/scripts/ndiff.py @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ # ndiff file1 file2 -- a human-friendly file differencer. # $Revision$ -# $NoKeywords: $ # SequenceMatcher tries to compute a "human-friendly diff" between # two sequences (chiefly picturing a file as a sequence of lines, @@ -52,6 +51,12 @@ # 3) Lines beginning with "? " attempt to guide the eye to intraline # differences, and were not present in either input file. # +# COROLLARY: +# On Unix, the second file can be recovered by piping the output through +# sed -n '/^[+ ] /s/^..//p' +# Modifications to recover the first file are left as an exercise for +# the reader. +# # NOTE on junk: the module-level names # IS_LINE_JUNK # IS_CHARACTER_JUNK