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Performing a simple diff on 2 non git files with the jgit library:

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffFormatter;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.EditList;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.HistogramDiff;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.RawText;
import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.RawTextComparator;

public class RawDiff
{
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
  {
    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    try
    {
      RawText rt1 = new RawText(new File("C:\\temp\\twofiles\\file1.txt"));
      RawText rt2 = new RawText(new File("C:\\temp\\twofiles\\file2.txt"));
      EditList diffList = new EditList();
      diffList.addAll(new HistogramDiff().diff(RawTextComparator.DEFAULT, rt1, rt2));
      new DiffFormatter(out).format(diffList, rt1, rt2);
    } catch (IOException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println(out.toString());
  }
}