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May 3, 2025 13:18
This option allows to tell icdiff to only color part of a line. Furhtermore allowing to reduce the visual noise generated by unwanted, or by perhaps expected, or by possibly irrelevant differences in the text being compared.
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Allow controlling the colouring via a regular expression provided on the command line. This is particularly helpful when some differences in the text are expected and yet not of interest. Examples for such use cases are memory dumps containing volatile runtime addresses, log files containing timestamps, generated text of any sort whose contents only partially match.
Smoke tests are included in the PR, for a more real world show case can try:
where
HEADis anything other thanmasterof course.As a side note,
requirements.txtmight need uprev-ing - had issues with the current version ofpyflakeson u24.04