Re: comparison of binary files in meld

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 23 February 2012 22:25,  <claudio fischer freenet de> wrote:
> Hi all,
> as I wrote earlier, I'm changing from windows to linux.
> Under windows I used the comparison tool "Compare It".
> This tool has a nice feature I'm missing a little bit in meld.
> You can compare binary files like e. g. bitmaps.
> We use it to compare our whole project-folders which also
> contain binary data saved by our applications.
>
> Would be nice to have this in meld, nevertheless meld is a great tool!
> I attached a screen shot of a binary comparison.

This is bug 387441:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387441
That screenshot is a good example of the kind of UI we'd be looking
at, so I'd appreciate it if you could add it to the bug.

This request has been around for a long time now. I actually really
like the idea of offering hexdump-based diff, but it would be a *lot*
of work to do properly. If anyone is interested in taking a stab at
it, I'll happily discuss what it should look like and how it would
work. I'm exceedingly unlikely to get a chance to try any time soon
though.

cheers,
Kai