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How do applications like DiffMerge detect differences in text files, and how do they determine when a line is new, and not just on a different line than the file being checked against?
Is this something that is fairly easy to implement? Are there already libraries to do this?
Here’s the paper that served as the basis for the UNIX command-line tool diff.