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Diff Match Patch is a high-performance library in multiple languages that manipulates plain text.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2018-03-19 · latest 2025-12-15

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  1. …in a new folder, ran uv init. Then I prompted the following: "Write a commandline tool that uses https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/wiki/Language:-Py... to generate diff of two files and presents it as side by side comparison in…
    comment by scotty79 · 2025-12-15 · in AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
  2. …in a new folder, ran uv init. Then I prompted the following: "Write a commandline tool that uses https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/wiki/Language:-Py... to generate diff of two files and presents it as side by side comparison in…
    comment by scotty79 · 2025-12-14 · in The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
  3. …users that rely on it. For anyone interested, to achieve synchronization I basically just use the https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch lib and save the patches in a db for each version with a version id. Then there's a generic JS…
    comment by meistertigran · 2025-12-13 · in Useful patterns for building HTML tools
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    Show HN: Character-Based Git Conflict Resolution
    story by manx · 2022-05-13 · 0 comments
  5. Found this, simple and seems interesting: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch
    comment by kibbleble · 2021-08-25 · in Ask HN: What are the best publicly available FAMANG code repos?
  6. …produced by wikidiff2 [2], the MediaWiki diff engine. Both engines produce word-by-word diff. [1]: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidiff2
    comment by Buetol · 2020-03-27 · in How different are different diff algorithms in Git?
  7. …repo, which makes its origin less obvious, and more subject to bit-rot and vulnerabilities. [1]: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/blob/master/java/... [2]: https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android/pull/760
    comment by MayeulC · 2020-01-19 · in Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
  8. …originally[1] mentioned this, but the license was removed[2] when the moved some files around. [0]: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/blob/master/javas... [1]: https://github.com/krisk/Fuse/commit/42b082fb1607ddc74e3d848... [2]:…
    comment by MapleWalnut · 2018-12-24 · in Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0
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    Diff Match Patch
    story by roschdal · 2018-03-19 · 0 comments