Diff, match and patch text in Go

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go-diff offers algorithms to perform operations required for synchronizing plain text:

  • Compare two texts and return their differences.
  • Perform fuzzy matching of text.
  • Apply patches onto text.

Installation

go get -u github.com/sergi/go-diff/...

Usage

The following example compares two texts and writes out the differences to standard output.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/sergi/go-diff/diffmatchpatch"
)

const (
	text1 = "Lorem ipsum dolor."
	text2 = "Lorem dolor sit amet."
)

func main() {
	dmp := diffmatchpatch.New()

	diffs := dmp.DiffMain(text1, text2, false)

	fmt.Println(dmp.DiffPrettyText(diffs))
}

Found a bug or are you missing a feature in go-diff?

Please make sure to have the latest version of go-diff. If the problem still persists go through the open issues in the tracker first. If you cannot find your request just open up a new issue.

How to contribute?

You want to contribute to go-diff? GREAT! If you are here because of a bug you want to fix or a feature you want to add, you can just read on. Otherwise we have a list of open issues in the tracker. Just choose something you think you can work on and discuss your plans in the issue by commenting on it.

Please make sure that every behavioral change is accompanied by test cases. Additionally, every contribution must pass the lint and test Makefile targets which can be run using the following commands in the repository root directory.

make lint
make test

After your contribution passes these commands, create a PR and we will review your contribution.

Origins

go-diff is a Go language port of Neil Fraser's google-diff-match-patch code. His original code is available at http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/.

Copyright and License

The original Google Diff, Match and Patch Library is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The full terms of that license are included here in the APACHE-LICENSE-2.0 file.

Diff, Match and Patch Library

Written by Neil Fraser Copyright (c) 2006 Google Inc. http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

This Go version of Diff, Match and Patch Library is licensed under the MIT License (a.k.a. the Expat License) which is included here in the LICENSE file.

Go version of Diff, Match and Patch Library

Copyright (c) 2012-2016 The go-diff authors. All rights reserved. https://github.com/sergi/go-diff

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Owner
Sergi Mansilla
Developer, author of "Reactive Programming with RxJS", speaker, Node, Go, distributed systems, curious being.
Sergi Mansilla
Comments
  • Use common lineHash to share indice between text1 and text2 for correct line diffs

    Use common lineHash to share indice between text1 and text2 for correct line diffs

    What?

    Use common cache of line contents between two texts in DiffLinesToChars to get line diffs correctly.

    Why?

    In some cases, line diffs cannot be retrieved correctly in the standard way. The following code is one of the examples.

    package main
    
    import (
    	"fmt"
    
    	"github.com/sergi/go-diff/diffmatchpatch"
    )
    
    const (
    	text1 = `hoge:
      step11:
      - arrayitem1
      - arrayitem2
      step12:
        step21: hoge
        step22: -93
    fuga: flatitem
    `
    	text2 = `hoge:
      step11:
      - arrayitem4
      - arrayitem2
      - arrayitem3
      step12:
        step21: hoge
        step22: -92
    fuga: flatitem
    `
    )
    
    func main() {
    	dmp := diffmatchpatch.New()
    	a, b, c := dmp.DiffLinesToChars(text1, text2)
    	diffs := dmp.DiffMain(a, b, false)
    	diffs = dmp.DiffCharsToLines(diffs, c)
    	// DiffCleanupSemantic improves a little but not enough
    	// diffs = dmp.DiffCleanupSemantic(diffs)
    	fmt.Println(diffs)
    }
    
    [{Insert hoge:
      step11:
    hoge:
    } {Equal hoge:
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal   step11:
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal   - arrayitem1
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal   - arrayitem2
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal   step12:
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal     step21: hoge
    } {Insert hoge:
    } {Equal     step22: -93
    } {Delete fuga: flatitem
    }]
    

    This fix corresponds to javascript implementation.

    Testing?

    Add a unit testcase

    Anything Else?

    This is my first contribution to this repository, therefore I would really appreciate any feedback, suggestions and change requests.

  • Is this repo still maintained? Friendly fork?

    Is this repo still maintained? Friendly fork?

    Thank you for this code. I'm a very happy user of sergi/go-diff, although I have to pin my use of the module to the latest working version, i.e. v1.1.0.

    Is this repo still maintained? There are many open issues with no response, the most recent tagged version (v1.2.0) has been broken (#123) for a year and half, and there have been no commits to master for a similar time period. There are many pull requests that have had no response.

    Under the terms of sergi/go-diff's MIT license, I propose to friendly fork this repo, unless there is still an intent to work on this. Go needs a good diff library like this, and a friendly fork is one that is carefully designed to be easy to merge back into the original.

    Let me know if there is still an intent to work on this valuable software, or if I should fork.

  • PatchApply panics with slice bounds out of range

    PatchApply panics with slice bounds out of range

    The following code panics when using PatchApply

    func main() {
    	dmp := diffmatchpatch.New()
    	patches, _ := dmp.PatchFromText("@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@\n %E2%98%9E \n+r\n")
    	fmt.Println(dmp.PatchToText(patches))
    
    	s, _ := dmp.PatchApply(patches, "☞ 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 ")
    	fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("%q", s))
    }
    
    panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:35] with length 33
    
    goroutine 1 [running]:
    github.com/sergi/go-diff/diffmatchpatch.(*DiffMatchPatch).PatchApply(0x14000109ef8, {0x14000078200?, 0x1, 0x1?}, {0x102d6650a, 0x19})
            /Users/michael/go/pkg/mod/github.com/sergi/[email protected]/diffmatchpatch/patch.go:306 +0x998
    main.main()
            /Users/michael/code/playground/scratch/main.go:14 +0xf0
    exit status 2
    

    It looks like its finding the wrong start location here - https://github.com/sergi/go-diff/blob/master/diffmatchpatch/patch.go#L265 E.g: this prints 25...

    func main() {
    	dmp := diffmatchpatch.New()
    	fmt.Println(dmp.MatchMain("\x01\x02\x03\x04☞ 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 \x01\x02\x03\x04", "☞ \x01\x02\x03\x04", 4))
    }
    
  • Restructure the pretty functions. Add markdown pretty function. Diff result with old and new pretty color function

    Restructure the pretty functions. Add markdown pretty function. Diff result with old and new pretty color function

    1. Restructure the pretty functions for more general pretty ways.
    2. Add pretty function for markdown.
    3. Diff's pretty result with both old and new pretty color.
  • fix panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range

    fix panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range

    This PR should fix #127

    The new code uses same implementation as the Java version: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/blob/62f2e689f498f9c92dbc588c58750addec9b1654/java/src/name/fraser/neil/plaintext/diff_match_patch.java#L545 https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch/blob/62f2e689f498f9c92dbc588c58750addec9b1654/java/src/name/fraser/neil/plaintext/diff_match_patch.java#L568

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