Spotting fuzzy difference in large html block

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi,
on my side I use kdiff3 (or meld). It should highlight the difference
between the previous and new file.
It's not a svn tool but works fine for this.

Cheers,

Johnny

Le mar. 27 juin 2023 à 22:56, Oliver Kellogg
<olivermkellogg at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I just had a minor frustration dealing with a fuzzy in r1654755 of
> svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf5/eo/messages/kstars/kstars.po
> where the cause turned out to be a single character typo fix buried in
> the large html hunk.
> How do you guys deal with such a situation?
> I resorted to
> - copy/pasting the old hunk to an xml file, cleaning it to be valid XML;
> - copy/pasting the new hunk to another xml file, cleaning it to be valid XML;
> - running both files through xmllint --html --format to get normalized
> formatted files;
> - running diff of the two normalized files.
>
> ... And all that just to find:
> The only difference between the two large hunks was a one character typo fix,
> "encapulates" -> "encapsulates"
> at original line:
> #| "circle centred on the star centroid that encapulates half the star's flux."
>
> Is there an easier way to find the difference(s)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver