English
Noun
en-noun
- slang Shortened form of difference
#:A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
- computing Any program which compares two files or sets of files an outputs a description of the differences between them.
- computing The output of a diff program. A diff file.
- slang Shortened form of difficult.
- slang Shortened form of the profanity "dip fuck"
Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
en-verb
- computing To run a diff program.
- computing To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files. To produce a patch file.
Proper noun
en-proper noun
- computing A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files an outputs a description of the differences between them.
See also
(computing) patch
Related terms
(computing) diff file
pl:diff
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