From: Jeff Whiteside <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:49:34 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track the history of a line in a file
Message-ID: <3ab397d0901021349h4ebae0c1g460a0c8abd4ec072@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901021439080.21567@asgard.lang.hm>

> -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.