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Dec 21, 2024 at 04:08
I've released difftastic 0.62! In this release: * Updated parsers for Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TOML, TypeScript and XML. * Obligatory crash fixes.
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Release 0.62.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.62.0 · 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 handling of multiline strings, which could ca...

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