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Oct 30, 2021 at 03:37
I created a patch to a typescript project today, but accidentally reformatted it. When viewing my changes with difftastic, I didn't see any of the formatting changes! This is kinda cool, but it would have annoyed the maintainer if I hadn't spotted it.

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