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Jun 13, 2021 at 19:35
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?
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