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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by kolev on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @11:06PM (#8531128)
Text diff is based on surrounding lines, specifically, siblings, parents, and children in this case. In JSON Patch, only the parents matter.
Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by DannyBee on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:52PM (#8536307)
So then it's a bad implementation of a textual tree diff algorithm .... which again, is a standard copy/add delta format (with a small amount of metadata).