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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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difftastic/CHANGELOG.md at master · Wilfred/difftastic
difftastic/CHANGELOG.md at master · Wilfred/difftastic
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