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Nov 15, 2022 at 23:32
The Makefile problem, or how absurdly hard it is to write paths in a text file whilst supporting both *nix and Windows:
EncodingStrategy - Mercurial

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Feb 11, 2025 at 16:48
I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release: * Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML * Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows * Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems!
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing When diffing directories, difftastic now ignores the ....
Jun 8, 2024 at 02:48
It is remarkably hard to escape command line arguments safely on Windows, and the standard libraries of multiple languages have needed patching:
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK ( @ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. Recently, I reported multiple vulnerabilities to several programming languages that allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows when the specific conditions were satisfied. Today, affected vendors published advisories of these vulnerabilities , so I’m documenting the details here to provide more information about the vulnerabilities and minimize the confusion regarding the high CVSS score. TL;DR The BatBadBut is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform command injection on Windows applications that indirectly depend on the CreateProcess function when the specific conditions are satisfied.
Nov 25, 2023 at 01:15
I've just released difftastic 0.53! In this release: * SCSS support * Better directory diffing: .gitignore is respected and output is (optionally) sorted by filename * Better support for Windows files (you can ignore carriage returns entirely)
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Release 0.53.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.53.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Parsing Added support for SCSS. Updated the Kotlin parser and ...