Re:The entire US Code is now online in XML
by DannyBee on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:21AM
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Sure, but this particular test tells you nothing.
You need one where the "line diff" has identified the wrong set of changes (IE it has decided two sets of text look close enough that one is really a change into the other, even though that's not what historically happened).
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Re:The entire US Code is now online in XML
by azernik on Saturday August 10, 2013 @12:24AM
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That is never the error I see in line-based diffs; because they're taking a much larger chunk of text to be atomic and treat irrelevant characters as relevant, they tend to give false positives (seeing two lines as completely different when in fact they're slightly modified versions of each other; or seeing two blocks of text as different when one is a reflowed version of the other.)