gabriel-weaver/Hierarchical-Diff — Issue #1: Binary File Diff
Author: gabriel-weaver
Created: 2011-12-15 16:46:55+00:00
State: open
Labels: Use Cases

"I have a binary file problem right now, I built a parser to convert it to text, and I can see the differences easily that way. Many files are exact duplicates in a different format (like a JPEG saved as a GIF and BMP), and many others are only slightly different (think French or Spanish converted to the English alphabet where the accents are lost). Weeding through the files is a lot easier, and if I could define the format and have the tool do it for me I would not have had to 'roll my own'".

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