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I wish that the diff/patch would be able to better take into account moved data (not only as deletion+add but with with a proper semantic indicating the moved b

I wish that the diff/patch would be able to better take into account moved data (not only as deletion+add but with with a proper semantic indicating the moved block). This would both lead to smaller and more readable patches. I noticed that some peoble have worked on such an algorithm, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/diff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/diff

Scaevolus 1y ago
Have you seen https://semanticdiff.com/ https://semanticdiff.com/ ?
- leeoniya 1y ago
  and https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
o11c 1y ago
If you squint hard enough, that's also what `git` does at the file level, when it detects renames even if the file changed.