Remove case differences between contents of two diff'ed files?
I often need to diff two versions of a text file where the majority of differences are just changes to case.
Generally these differences are spurious and I'd like to eradicate them from the newest version of the file at hand. Any other changes are valid and need to be preserved.
For example -- Using WinMerge you can tell it to ignore case differences but I can't find any method to have it merge ONLY the case differences from one file to another.
I am looking for a method of doing this using ANY diff tool in Windows, or any other method for that matter.
(Doing it in WinMerge would be a plus but is not essential.)
Thanks!
(Background - this situation arises when coding in VB6; the VB6 IDE likes to change case of variables inappropriately sometimes; this has no functional effect but makes it very hard to have a clean source control history. I prefer to erase the unnecessary case changes before checking in code; but this can be very tedious and error prone to do manually.)
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asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
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I often need to diff two versions of a text file where the majority of differences are just changes to case.
Generally these differences are spurious and I'd like to eradicate them from the newest version of the file at hand. Any other changes are valid and need to be preserved.
For example -- Using WinMerge you can tell it to ignore case differences but I can't find any method to have it merge ONLY the case differences from one file to another.
I am looking for a method of doing this using ANY diff tool in Windows, or any other method for that matter.
(Doing it in WinMerge would be a plus but is not essential.)
Thanks!
(Background - this situation arises when coding in VB6; the VB6 IDE likes to change case of variables inappropriately sometimes; this has no functional effect but makes it very hard to have a clean source control history. I prefer to erase the unnecessary case changes before checking in code; but this can be very tedious and error prone to do manually.)
winmerge difftool
asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
DaveInCazDaveInCaz
18712
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I often need to diff two versions of a text file where the majority of differences are just changes to case.
Generally these differences are spurious and I'd like to eradicate them from the newest version of the file at hand. Any other changes are valid and need to be preserved.
For example -- Using WinMerge you can tell it to ignore case differences but I can't find any method to have it merge ONLY the case differences from one file to another.
I am looking for a method of doing this using ANY diff tool in Windows, or any other method for that matter.
(Doing it in WinMerge would be a plus but is not essential.)
Thanks!
(Background - this situation arises when coding in VB6; the VB6 IDE likes to change case of variables inappropriately sometimes; this has no functional effect but makes it very hard to have a clean source control history. I prefer to erase the unnecessary case changes before checking in code; but this can be very tedious and error prone to do manually.)
winmerge difftool
asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
DaveInCazDaveInCaz
18712
I often need to diff two versions of a text file where the majority of differences are just changes to case.
Generally these differences are spurious and I'd like to eradicate them from the newest version of the file at hand. Any other changes are valid and need to be preserved.
For example -- Using WinMerge you can tell it to ignore case differences but I can't find any method to have it merge ONLY the case differences from one file to another.
I am looking for a method of doing this using ANY diff tool in Windows, or any other method for that matter.
(Doing it in WinMerge would be a plus but is not essential.)
Thanks!
(Background - this situation arises when coding in VB6; the VB6 IDE likes to change case of variables inappropriately sometimes; this has no functional effect but makes it very hard to have a clean source control history. I prefer to erase the unnecessary case changes before checking in code; but this can be very tedious and error prone to do manually.)
winmerge difftool
winmerge difftool
asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
DaveInCazDaveInCaz
18712
asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
DaveInCazDaveInCaz
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DaveInCaz
asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
DaveInCazDaveInCaz
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asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
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asked Oct 24 '18 at 20:41
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