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Re:I no longer understand my PhD dissertation by jrgv on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:15AM (#11102704)
> That's the main advantage of commit messages over comments - they are always fresh and encode the exact lines they refer to.

Unless they're something like "fixed indentation".

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Re:I no longer understand my PhD dissertation by ajuc on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:25AM (#11102733)
In which case it's one click away. And anyway you should enable checkstyle and autoformat on saving files, and you can use "ignore whitespace changes" in git view for legacy code.
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