DiffIgnore

DiffIgnore

is an option to Diff and related functions that specifies what elements to ignore when computing diffs.

Details

  • DiffIgnore{elem1,elem2,…} will ignore the given elements when computing the diffs.
  • When comparing notebooks or cells, supported elements include:
  • "BoxOptions"ignore all box options
    "CellOptions"ignore all cell options
    "CellStyles"ignore all cell styles
    "InlineCellOptions"ignore all inline cell options
    "InlineCellStyles"ignore all inline cell styles
    "NotebookOptions"ignore all notebook options
    elem{item1,item2,…}ignore particular option names or styles for the given element

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

When comparing cells, Diff will find any style and option changes in addition to content changes:

Use DiffIgnore to ignore all style and option changes:

Use DiffIgnore to ignore specific cell options:

When comparing notebooks, Diff will include notebook option changes:

Use DiffIgnore to ignore specific notebook options:

Possible Issues  (1)

Construct notebook expressions to compare:

Ignoring the cell option ExpressionUUID may result in differently aligned results:

Wolfram Research (2024), DiffIgnore, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2024), DiffIgnore, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2024. "DiffIgnore." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2024). DiffIgnore. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_diffignore, author="Wolfram Research", title="{DiffIgnore}", year="2024", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html}", note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_diffignore, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={DiffIgnore}, year={2024}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiffIgnore.html}, note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}