Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
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#2Yes.
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#3I paid and used SemanticMerge quite successfully when we had a complex Git workflow with lots of conflicts.
Since moving to short lived feature branches it is less useful to me.
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#4I like the name.
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#5This looks absolutely amazing.
One thing I do find interesting (and a wish were different) is that only programming languages are supported, rather than data formats as well.
For example, two JSON documents may be valid but formatted slightly differently, or a common task for me is comparing two YAML files.
Comparing config files that have a well defined syntax and or can be abstracted into a tree (JSON, YAML, TOML, etc.) would be absolutely lovely, even and including (if possible) Markdown and its ilk.
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#6Is there a good reason why diff tools generally don’t use AST?
Re: Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
#7This looks absolutely amazing. One thing I do find interesting (and a wish were different) is that only programming languages are supported, rather than data formats as well. For example, two JSON documents may be valid but formatted slightly differently, or a common task for me is comparing two YAML files. Comparing config files that have a well defined syntax and or can be abstracted into a tree (JSON, YAML, TOML,…
JSON is supported.
HTML and XML are missing, too.
Re: Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
#8Is there a good reason why diff tools generally don’t use AST?
Performances is one I guess.
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#9Finally.
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#10I really like the idea of focusing on producing patches for human consumption. I studied the problem of merging AST-level patches during my PhD (https://github.com/VictorCMiraldo/hdiff) and can confirm: not simple! :)