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Re:Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound t... by garmaine on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:59PM (#24594549)
> On the other hand, if I'm being honest, all of my really hairy merge conflicts are not things that I think could be resolved by this---not without changing the way we think about code from being about text to being about ASTs.

With the trend towards automatic code formatting, I don’t think that would be difficult to do.

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Re:Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound t... by breck on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:04PM (#24596094)
I think this is where things could go—VCS aware of semantics—which could happen if syntax==semantics.
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