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Line-based diff algorithms are fine, but what the world really needs is more study into tree-based diffs. This does not require per-language implementations of
by o11c 3y ago
Line-based diff algorithms are fine, but what the world really needs is more study into tree-based diffs.
This does not require per-language implementations of `diff`, only per-language implementations of text-to-some-well-known-tree.
- parentheses 3y agoI agree. Semantic diff is very useful. Tangentially, I'm surprised that the terraform diff cannot be displayed in a more user-friendly manner.