Text Diff Tool (java, written by Gemini Code Assist)

Gemini Code Assist wrote this java project from the task below. It installed and ran on a clean Ubuntu 22.04 machine as written.

Task given to the agent:

TASK: Text Diff Tool

Write a program that compares two text files and produces a detailed diff showing additions, deletions, and modifications with configurable output formats and context control.

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Accept two file paths as command-line arguments (original and modified)
- Compute the longest common subsequence (LCS) based diff to identify added, deleted, and changed lines
- Support multiple output formats via --format flag: unified diff (default, similar to git diff), side-by-side (two-column view), inline (changes marked within lines), and html (visual diff as an HTML page)
- Support configurable context lines around changes via --context flag (default: 3 lines of unchanged context around each change)
- Detect and highlight intra-line changes: when a line is modified, show exactly which words or characters changed within the line
- Support ignoring whitespace differences via --ignore-whitespace flag
- Support ignoring case differences via --ignore-case flag
- Support ignoring blank lines via --ignore-blank-lines flag
- Compute and display diff statistics: total lines in each file, lines added, lines deleted, lines modified, and a similarity percentage
- Support comparing directories via --recursive flag: compare all matching files in two directory trees and report which files are added, deleted, modified, or identical
- Apply color coding in console output: green for additions, red for deletions, yellow for modifications
- Save the diff output to a file via --output flag
- If no input files are given, generate two sample text files (original and modified version with insertions, deletions, modifications, and moved blocks), then compute and display the diff in all supported formats
- Handle errors: binary files (detect and skip with warning), missing files, encoding mismatches, and very large files

Create a complete Java project for a clean Ubuntu 22.04 machine with only JDK 17+ installed. Include:
- Source code
- pom.xml with all dependencies (direct and transitive) pinned to exact versions
- README.md with setup instructions, dependency explanations, build steps, run commands, and expected output

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.diff</groupId>
    <artifactId>text-diff</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.github.java-diff-utils</groupId>
            <artifactId>java-diff-utils</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <transformers>
                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass>com.diff.DiffTool</mainClass>
                                </transformer>
                            </transformers>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

# Text Diff Tool (Java)

A tool for comparing text files using the `java-diff-utils` library.

## Setup Instructions

1. Ensure JDK 17+ and Maven are installed.
2. Build the project:
   ```bash
   mvn clean package
   ```

## Run Commands

- **Compare Files**:
  ```bash
  java -jar target/text-diff-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar original.txt updated.txt
  ```

package com.diff;

import com.github.difflib.DiffUtils;
import com.github.difflib.UnifiedDiffUtils;
import com.github.difflib.patch.Patch;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.List;

public class DiffTool {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        if (args.length < 2) {
            System.out.println("Usage: java -jar difftool.jar <file1> <file2>");
            return;
        }

        String path1 = args[0];
        String path2 = args[1];

        try {
            List<String> original = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(path1));
            List<String> revised = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(path2));

            // Compute diff
            Patch<String> patch = DiffUtils.diff(original, revised);

            // Generate Unified Diff output
            List<String> unifiedDiff = UnifiedDiffUtils.generateUnifiedDiff(path1, path2, original, patch, 3);

            System.out.println("--- Diff Result ---");
            for (String line : unifiedDiff) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }

            if (unifiedDiff.isEmpty()) {
                System.out.println("Files are identical.");
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Error reading files: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}