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Mar 14, 2022 at 04:44
I've found an interesting case where difftastic and GitHub diff results are pretty different. I've replaced some function calls with a DiffResult and the matching is a bit aggressive, but showing `diff_directories` changes is really nice. (Commit shown: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/commit/4883edd90cc8011041a6cee0622805d6bc7847a0)
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Factor out a DiffResult type · Wilfred/difftastic@4883edd
Factor out a DiffResult type · Wilfred/difftastic@4883edd
This separates diffing and printing better, and will make it easier to provide a JSON output for #73.
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