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Re: improved diff tool

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2018, 09:08 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>
> AFAICT this is more than just a coloring scheme as it both produces
> a different low level diff, which would need code in the xdiff parts
> as well as colors, that is in diff.c.

About the low level diff, Michael Haggerty's tools for experimenting with diff "slider" heuristics might also help:

https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools
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  1. Piers Titus van der TorrenAug 30, 2018
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