Merge / Diff algo

Ruby
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Is there any lib to do simple text based merges (3 way) from Ruby?

Perhaps it’s simple enough to do without an external lib. Just need
to see which lines child1 added to parent, which ones child1 deleted,
and same for child2, and then merge them - in order…

Hmmm… perhaps I should use an external lib…

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, S. Robert J. wrote:

Is there any lib to do simple text based merges (3 way) from Ruby?

Perhaps it’s simple enough to do without an external lib. Just need
to see which lines child1 added to parent, which ones child1 deleted,
and same for child2, and then merge them - in order…

Hmmm… perhaps I should use an external lib…

diff3 -Em myfile oldfile yourfile

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On 3/15/07, S. Robert J. [email protected] wrote:

Is there any lib to do simple text based merges (3 way) from Ruby?

Perhaps it’s simple enough to do without an external lib. Just need
to see which lines child1 added to parent, which ones child1 deleted,
and same for child2, and then merge them - in order…

Hmmm… perhaps I should use an external lib…

I seem to recall that someone had put some merge operations around
Diff::LCS.

-austin