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Re: how to track the history of a line in a file

From
JWJeff Whiteside <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2009, 21:49 UTC
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<3ab397d0901021349h4ebae0c1g460a0c8abd4ec072@mail.gmail.com>
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<alpine.DEB.1.10.0901021439080.21567@asgard.lang.hm>
Show 10 quoted lines
> -oldline
> +newline
>
> it's a 1-1 correspondence
>
> if it's instead
> -oldline1
> -oldline2
> +newline1
> +newline2

what a neat idea. i'm going to start malloc'ing 10,000 lines x 120 chars for each file i add, and edit them so that no new lines replace removed lines unless it's intended that they were the same line.

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