I write a lot of markdown, so I'm comfortable with the format, but *asterisks* for *italics* still seems strange to me.
I mentally read it as bold, and some mailing list web frontends to the same thing.
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One thing that bothers me about today's diffs: we often read changes in a format that patch can consume!
Diffs are largely read by humans, but we have to mentally parse "@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@". Which line is line 40? Is it the first visible line, or the first changed line?
