lcs-diff/README.md
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Toy LCS-based Diff program

Toy Longest-Common-Subsequence based diff and patch program, minimizing the edit script's sum of line-addition and line-deletions.

Example usage:

python diff.py a1 b1 > patch1
python patch.py a1 patch1 > c1 # patch is not in-place
python diff.py a1 c1 # verify that a1 and c1 has the same content