I'm reading papers about tree diff techniques, to try to improve my structural diff tool.
Most papers focus on diffing XML. Their techniques are clever and relevant, but crikey some of the intro quotes really haven't aged well.
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I'm really flattered that IntelliJ users are requesting structural diffs and referencing difftastic!
(FWIW I'd love to eventually ship a reusable library, but APIs are just changing too fast right now.)
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-291212
I've changed the difftastic slogan to " a structural diff that understands syntax".
Previously I just said "a diff that understands syntax", but users sometimes assumed it was just a diff with syntax highlighting. Hopefully this communicates the purpose better.
Interesting people keep popping up on the difftastic issue tracker.
Here's a discussion of applying structural diff techniques to language-aware merging: