Diff

Noun

 * A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
 * 1)  Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
 * 2)  The output of a diff program. A diff file.
 * 3) * 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:
 * I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.
 * : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
 * 1)  A difficult route.
 * 1)  A difficult route.
 * 1)  A difficult route.

Verb

 * 1)  To run a diff program on (files or items).
 * 2)  To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files. To produce a patch file.
 * 3)  To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

Related terms

 * (computing) diff file

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