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Been hoping for more of this for years. We stare at diffs all day yet we have to accommodate the computer by understanding that the parenthesis it claims was ch
by blixt 5y ago
Been hoping for more of this for years. We stare at diffs all day yet we have to accommodate the computer by understanding that the parenthesis it claims was changed wasn’t actually changed, there was just another set of parentheses added. There’s of course limits to how much a diff tool can extract meaning from two pieces of content, but structure and perhaps even heuristics like “new function was added here, maybe the curly brace belongs with that and not the old function” would certainly help.
- vcmiraldo 5y agoyou'll probably enjoy the patience diff: https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/09/19/the-patience-diff-algorithm/ https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/09/19/the-patience-diff-algori...