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NAME
       berkdiff3 - Berkeley 3-way differential file comparison

SYNOPSIS
       berkdiff3 [ -exEX3 ] file1 file2 file3

DESCRIPTION
       Berkdiff3 compares three versions of a file, and publishes
       disagreeing ranges of text flagged with these codes:

       ====            all three files differ

       ====1           file1 is different

       ====2           file2 is different

       ====3           file3 is different

       The type of change suffered in converting a given range of a given
       file to some other is indicated in one of these ways:

       f : n1 a        Text is to be appended after line number n1 in file
                       f, where f = 1, 2, or 3.

       f : n1, n2 c    Text is to be changed in the range line n1 to line
                       n2.  If n1 = n2, the range may be abbreviated to n1.

       The original contents of the range follows immediately after a c
       indication.  When the contents of two files are identical, the
       contents of the lower-numbered file is suppressed.

       Under the -e option, berkdiff3 publishes a script for the editor ed
       that will incorporate into file1 all changes between file2 and file3,
       i.e.  the changes that normally would be flagged ==== and ====3.
       Option -x (-3) produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged
       ==== (====3).  The following command will apply the resulting script
       to `file1'.

                (cat script; echo '1,$p') | ed - file1

       The -E and -X are similar to -e and -x, respectively, but treat
       overlapping changes (i.e., changes that would be flagged with ==== in
       the normal listing) differently.  The overlapping lines from both
       files will be inserted by the edit script, bracketed by "<<<<<<" and
       ">>>>>>" lines.

       For example, suppose lines 7-8 are changed in both file1 and file2.
       Applying the edit script generated by the command

                          berkdiff3 -E file1 file2 file3

       to file1 results in the file:

              lines 1-6



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              of file1
              <<<<<<< file1
              lines 7-8
              of file1
              =======
              lines 7-8
              of file3
              >>>>>>> file3
              rest of file1

       The -E option is used by rcsmerge(1) to insure that overlapping
       changes in the merged files are preserved and brought to someone's
       attention.

FILES
       /tmp/d3?????
       /usr/lib/berkdiff3

SEE ALSO
       berkdiff(1), rcsmerge(1).

NOTES
       Text lines that consist of a single `.' will defeat -e.


































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