Bug with 2 text files

aksel · Post by **aksel** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:31 am

Hey - I'm loading DIFFMERGE with these two files attempting to compare them and every time DIFFMERGE just hangs.

I've had to go back to WinMerge to compare them - and they are only text files.

I've attached them here in case this helps.

jeffhostetler · Post by **jeffhostetler** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:58 am

qc.txt is 0 bytes. did you intend that ?

aksel · Post by **aksel** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:13 pm

Sorry Let me reupload QC2.txt

jeffhostetler · Post by **jeffhostetler** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:09 pm

could you re-upload the other one too -- it was the one that was empty.

thanks
jeff

aksel · Post by **aksel** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:44 am

Sorry

jeffhostetler · Post by **jeffhostetler** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:41 pm

Yeah, the files take forever to load when the Detail Level is set to "Lines and Characters". If you set the Detail Level to "Lines Only" (using the Options Dialog) they load in very quickly.

The problem here is that the 2 files (one ~64kb and one ~470kb) have nothing in common, so in "Lines and Characters" mode, the "multi-line-intra-line" analysis is getting overwhelmed.

When that is turned off, DiffMerge will see it as a "relatively simple" ~900 line vs ~8000 line comparison.

I probably need to add something to automatically detect this and back off the aggressive intra-line stuff.... [I'll add a work item to investigate this.]

hope this helps,
j

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Bug with 2 text files

Bug with 2 text files

qc.txt is empty - did you intend that ?

Missing file

qc2.txt was ok, it was qc.txt that was empty.

Missing file

Try setting the Detail Level to "Lines Only"