Blogged: Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff
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It seems really odd to me that git uses 'cached' terminology for staging. For example, `git add somefile.rs; git diff --cached`.
Caching implies state that you don't mind losing. There's very little state I want to lose in version control!
I'm not sure if I should use the term "text diff" or "textual diff" to refer to a conventional, line-oriented diff of text in difftastic.
Any opinions? Which seems clearer to you?
I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked!
E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function".
I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.