Subj : Text Compare
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Feb 01 2005 02:50 pm

  Re: Text Compare
  By: Angus Mcleod to All on Tue Feb 01 2005 06:38 pm

 > I'm working on a little Perl ditty to do a 3-way compare on text.dat
 > files.  It assumes that there has been a fork where an original file was
 > modified, and now a new version of the original has been released.
 > 
 > It compares all three files line-by-line and works on the premise that:
 > 
 > 1)  If the new verion does not differ from the old, (no official change)
 >     then the users version, modified or not, can be used.
 > 
 > 2)  If the users version does not differ from the original, so the new
 >     version (changed or not) can be used.
 > 
 > 3)  Otherwise, the three files are all different and it's decision-time as
 >     to whether to use the users modified line or the official updated
 >     line.
 > 
 > In case #3, what would you suggest the program do?  I don't know if it
 > makes more sense to go with the users modified version, the official new
 > version, or both (with one commented out, and if so, WHICH one...)

Prompt the user and ask which version to use?

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