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Consider an XML file consisting of one long line of text. A diff would not be very useful in that case.

• michaelneale 17y ago
  I guess an XML aware diff could work though? certainly not at all line based...
  • jamesbritt 17y ago
    If it did node-based diffs.
    • _pi 17y ago
      Most diffs do that. The Diff that ships with gvim on Windows has this option on by default and I couldn't find where to turn it off because it was severely screwing up what I was diffing.