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Mar 18, 2022 at 05:37
Difftastic 0.23 is out! I've been tuning diffing and display and I think the results look fantastic. * Parent delimiters are modelled accurately * Display uses blank lines as an alignment hint * Textual diffing is way faster too!
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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?
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I've released difftastic 0.59! In this release: * Fixed a nasty crash on textual files * Added F# and device tree support * Improved comment syntax highlighting (especially for Elm)
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Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing Fixed crash on some textual files where a single chang...
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