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We had, back in the '90s, a 'semantic diff' that ignored whitespace, knew about programming languages, showed only significant code changes (not comments; not e

We had, back in the '90s, a 'semantic diff' that ignored whitespace, knew about programming languages, showed only significant code changes (not comments; not empty lines; not refactoring of code into a different number of lines). All I used after that.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 2y ago
There is this amazing tool called difftastic. I've been using it for years with git and it works like a charm. [1] [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768861 [2] https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic