Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. By the 1980s, support for binary files resulted in a shift in the application’s design and implementation. The first editions of the diff program were designed for line comparisons of text files expecting the newline character to delimit lines. The algorithm was independently discovered and described in “Algorithms for Approximate String Matching”, by Esko Ukkonen. Myers and in “A File Comparison Program” by Webb Miller and Myers. The basic algorithm is described in the papers “An O Difference Algorithm” and its “Variations” by Eugene W.
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