miniblog.

I'm still experimenting with patch display in difftastic. The change to the imports are clearer in the patch mode, but the side-by-side mode does make the if/else changes more readable. Patches are probably worthwhile anyway due to their machine readability.

I'm experimenting with a patch-style display format for difftastic. What do you think? Do the colours work? What about the last example, where there's only whitespace changes and the syntactic diff has nothing to highlight?

Difftastic is written in Rust, so I was surprised to get a user report of a segfault. After some investigation, it turns out that it's a segfault in git itself, which has existed since 2014! https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAFXAjY7XcL1APhLRXU8TO96z=f7957f2ieK56dHVsXUay55vpg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u (Upstream has already kindly written a patch.)