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Feb 28, 2022 at 06:20
I'm prototyping HTML output from difftastic, and I'm really excited about the initial results. I can provide full syntax highlighting with HTML (in both changed and unchanged regions), and I can have multiple levels of transparency to highlight the changed syntactic elements!
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Aug 8, 2022 at 01:49
I've released difftastic 0.32! A small release, but well worth upgrading: * Difftastic is now smarter at discarding obviously unchanged content, producing much faster diffs in a bunch of cases * Fixed a crash on Windows when a whole file is added/removed
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Release 0.32.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.32.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing Improved performance in many cases, particularly for f...
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