Re: Feature request: git cp

From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2025, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID: <6D0DEC5C-0912-4D48-A108-3E0D1B2017D7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL4-wQra+7HOJ6_qNy+4_tvz7=KApW7yb7BNE6B86JnowschXg@mail.gmail.com>

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> My only regret with git is that it's line-based instead of word-based
> as that would see a change from < limit to <= limit as one symbol
> change, allowing semantic analysis of program changes but
> if it's all retrospective anyway, the line-based change analysis
> could gain a word-based mode.

Again, since Git is based on snapshots instead of deltas, actually it doesn't really matter. Git doesn't store diffs (deltas), they are only computed when using `git diff`, `git show` and `git log`. If you want the diff based on words instead of lines, you can use the flag --word-diff in those three commands.

And, again, since Git is based on snapshots, if one wants a more semantic diff, they can use the snapshots of two commits and them generate the diff the way they want. One example of that (and one that I use a lot) is git-latexdiff [1].

[1] https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff