semantic-diff – Tarik Billa

Tool to parse and compare two CSS stylesheets [closed]

May 13, 2023 by Tarik

Here’s what I ended up doing, in case someone else has the same problem: I used CSSTidy to “normalize” the two stylesheets I wanted to compare. Normalization in my case meant splitting multiple selectors and sorting selectors and properties. An online version of CSSTidy is available here. After this, I used the CSS Comparer tool … Read more

git diff algorithm that does not rip functions apart? (language-aware diff)

May 4, 2023 by Tarik

I do not know how to do that in git alone, but there is at least one commercial tool (i.e. it costs money) which deals with that kind of problems, called SemanticMerge. It can handle quite a lot of cool cases, and supports C#, Java, and partially C. You can configure git to use it … Read more