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Delta - code inspection and diff tool

A source code diff tool. Adapted from cvsweb, it makes code inspection easy. It also provides another diff tool with which you can either compare two files or two directories recursively. It is written in perl and uses String::Ediff for finer diff.

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Last Update: 2013-03-11
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QualityMgnt ToolBox

Provides tools, supporting quality management or quality assurance for software: Assessment execution (ISO 15504 (SPiCE), AutomotiveSPiCE, CMMi), diff tool calculating sizes (SLoC) of diffs, identification of conditional compilation, and more.

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Last Update: 2013-04-10
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Tolerant file differencing

Toldiff is a diff tool that allows tolerable (insignificant) differences between two files to be suppressed showing only the important ones. The tolerable differences are recorded running the tool with an appropriate command line flag.

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Last Update: 2016-08-06
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XP VMaster

A cross-platform file diff and directory diff Tool. Also contains an SCM project which uses the stand-alone tool. Go to https://vmaster.sourceforge.net to see screenshots or to start the diff tool.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2013-02-21
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