Rift / Use cases

Use cases

Five things people search for when a file is too big for diff. Each page has the command and the output it printed on generated data.

• Diff two SQL dumps

  Summary first, then the unified diff, on a pair of generated dumps.

• Compare CSV by key

  Match rows by a column and list the keys that were added, removed or changed.

• Files larger than RAM

  Set a heap limit and diff a pair of any size you have measured, with the numbers.

• git: Binary files differ

  Give git a diff for large text files with rift git-diff.

• Compare NDJSON logs

  Line diff for NDJSON, and key mode to match records by a field.