I have a .diff file but I don’t know how to open it. I trie using FileMerge but that doesn’t give me an option to open a .diff file.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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I have a .diff file but I don’t know how to open it. I trie using FileMerge but that doesn’t give me an option to open a .diff file.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Diffs are just plain text. You should be able to open it with TextEdit or any other text editor. If you want syntax highlighting probably many of the fancier editors could do that. I just used Aquamacs Emacs to load a diff file and it provided some highlighting.
And if you want to ‘apply’ the diff to a file, use the patch command, like in SanHolo‘s answer.