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Re:How big is a Git commit? by Anduia on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:54AM (#50041809)
Very interesting! Maybe the AST part is more useful for diffs and merges than for compression.
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Re:How big is a Git commit? by nathanpankon on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:42AM (#50042698)
There are some attempts at this (semanticdiff, etc) and they seem very good. But I was looking for a tool that could actively edit a set portion of code, maintaining a small diff above a moving target

In that case merging from "main" starts to be extremely difficult

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