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About a year ago, I started working on disassembling the NES game Faxanadu. The goal was to fully understand and document the game, and to produce the most thorough understanding o…

The author has a number of repositories going back 3 years that seem purely experimental and, to me at least, really fun to look through. https://github.com/icitry?tab=repositories…

We're still using it for our stuff (via our @beanbag/spina TypeScript wrapper for Backbone that has a few additional niceties), and I feel the same way. We can be as close to the D…

I'm pretty happy to see this, as conditionals can really help keep code manageable when trying to define CSS variables or other properties based on combinations of light mode, dark…

Love seeing this one. My uncle was co-founder of Quarterdeck, and I grew up in a world of DESQview and QEMM. It was a big influence on me as a child. Got a good family story about …

This is a great feature for those who want a mix of positional and keyword-only arguments. I should have mentioned originally (and I've since updated my post) that this and the kw_…

That's annoying for sure. Though a different problem. All the kw_only=True argument for dataclasses does is require that you pass any fields you want to provide as keyword argument…

Yeah, that's the approach we'll be taking in housekeeping. I didn't want to complicate the example any more than I already did :)

That's always the challenge when iterating on interfaces that other people depend on. What we do is go through a deprecation phase. Our process is: * We provide compatibility with …

I'm really glad it was useful for you and your teams! :) Hearing that kind of thing always brightens my day. I've felt very lucky getting to work on this as my job all these years.…

Yep! We spent 20 years dealing with these problems and in those 20 years nobody really solved these pain points. So we talked to some SCM vendors, bounced ideas around, built a spe…

Generally-speaking, you probably shouldn't have to deal with these problems unless you're writing a tool that has to interface with certain SCMs or SCMs used in certain environment…

If wishing made it so... I have so many stories I could tell at this point.

Yeah the nomenclature sucks. When talking about the file, the two terms are often used interchangeably (and are usually a .diff or a .patch extension). For fun, the GNU Patch manpa…

We build a code review product that interfaces with over a dozen SCMs. In about 20 years of writing diff parsers, we've encountered all kinds of problems and limitations in SCM-gen…

difftastic is great! This isn't a tool for viewing changes to files or to ASTs. This is a way of being able to generate a single diff file for processing or patching that addresses…

Created by the Git team for Git's purposes, rather than something documented or proposed for wider adoption. Other SCMs can and do use a Git-style diff format, but as there's no de…

In the early drafts, we played with a number of approaches for the structure. Things like "commit-meta", etc. In the end, we broke it down into `# `, just to simplify the parsing r…

Git is using a proprietary variant on top of Unified Diffs. Unified Diffs themselves convey very little information about the file being modified, focusing solely on the line-based…

Absolutely agree. I think there's a lot of avenues to explore for better diff representations for structured data (which would also be great for ASTs, something we've been thinking…

I have a much-too-long-for-one-comment write-up about this, but it's basically for those who build SCMs or tools that need to work with SCMs. End users shouldn't have to care about…

The repository metadata absolutely should own the commit information. Diff files are there to represent a delta state of the repository, a difference between a range of changes. Th…

`git format-patch` and `git am` are great! Not all SCMs have something like that (many don't even have a diff format with enough information to reliably look up a file or apply all…

It is. However, first the tools need to be able to grab the necessary information from the diff to, say, locate that file or its metadata in a repository. Git's diff format contain…