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Sep 22, 2018 at 00:17
It's funny how competing tools get created around similar times. Both git and mercurial were created in 2005!

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The Makefile problem, or how absurdly hard it is to write paths in a text file whilst supporting both *nix and Windows:
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Oct 19, 2021 at 06:13
I've released difftastic 0.11! In this release: * Basic syntax highlighting of keywords and comments! * Substantially improved performance! I've seen 0.5x runtime on larger programs. * Basic Mercurial support! Plus an bunch of smaller fixes and polish:
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Apr 25, 2020 at 22:37
I'm comfortable with git, and recently learned mercurial, and I've concluded: commits are the wrong abstraction. Work-in-progress and finished work are different concepts. Rebases and even branches are for WIP. Signing is for finished work. Timestamps and authors change for WIP.