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Re:Git 2.9 released by creshal on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:22AM (#11916276)
I'm fairly sure this applies only to the generating engine. (Otherwise it'd somehow need to reformat old diffs on the fly.)
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Re:Git 2.9 released by avar on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:32PM (#11917600)
Reformat old diffs? If you're under the impression that Git stores diffs you're mistaken. It stores the full file contents and delta-compresses them later.

Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption.

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Re:Git 2.9 released by creshal on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:51PM (#11918104)
> Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption.

git format-patch says hi. Obviously the diff engine changes won't apply to already generated text diffs.

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