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Jan 16, 2023 at 05:54
I've released difftastic 0.42! In this release: * Faster textual diffing (over 10x if files have few lines in common!) * There's now a syntactic diffing option --ignore-comments, for when you only want to see code changes
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Release 0.42.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.42.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Parsing Improved CSS parsing and HTML sublanguage parsing. Dif...

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