Subject: RE: wdiff is your friend (was: Re: RFC-Editor 48-hour process (wa s: Input solicited: IETF problem pi npointing at the plenary?) )

From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:44:52 +0100

It is not only checking the diffs. It is also a matter of
applying diffs. Instead of

- email RFC Editor

  on page xxx
  OLD:
     bbbb
  NEW:
     cccc
  And then later check that they were done properly

versus

- checkout documetn from RFC editor
  make changes
  checkin document to RFC editor
  RFC-Editor (and anyone else) can see the changes
  and easily undo them too

Thanks,
Bert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Narten [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: donderdag 14 november 2002 22:23
> To: Spencer Dawkins
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: wdiff is your friend (was: Re: RFC-Editor 48-hour
> process (was:
> Input solicited: IETF problem pi npointing at the plenary?) )
>
>
> > One of my least favorite activities is trying to figure out what the
> > difs between two formatted drafts are, because so many lines change
> > simply because of formatting. If this proposal would make it easier
> > to produce content difs, instead of format-and-content difs, I'd
> > think that was a Good Thing.
>
>    http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/traiter.cgi/wdiff
>    ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wdiff/wdiff-0.5.tar.gz
>
> I (and surely others) have scripts that strip off page headers and
> trailers of documents and then run them through wdiff. Result is an
> easy way to look only at text differences in documents (provided there
> aren't too many, of course).
>
> Thomas
>