Category Archives: wiggle

My “wiggle” program which applies a patch to a different version of the file needs to compute the shortest edit path between two texts, which is the smallest set of additions and deletions that must be made to one file … Continue reading →

About 11 years ago I started writing “wiggle”.  I have finally released version 1.0. Wiggle is a tool for applying patches with conflicts.  I do quite a bit of applying patches to a release different to the one they were … Continue reading →

My second talk at LCA2013 – the first one accepted – was on “wiggle”, my tool for applying patches that don’t apply.  In the presentation I wanted to explain how “diff” works – as I then wanted to explain why … Continue reading →