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Re: [Monotone-devel] Text under revision control
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Ethan Blanton |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Text under revision control |
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Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:43:40 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
address@hidden spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Now the VCS could use a different difference algorithm when processing
> them. Or it could unpack them into something easier to process (like a
> sequence of words instead of lines). Or the word-processor could use a
> better file-format, or be careful to preserve the locations of the
> meaningless line numbers in the file, or insert many of them in standard
> places (such as sentence breaks, or punctuation, or between every two
> words).
Note that gnu wdiff works reasonably well with several plain-text
formats, notably latex. I use wdiff + latex + VCS quite often, with
reasonably satisfactory results. There is no 'wpatch', so wdiff is
useful mainly for review, but that's OK -- one generally doesn't care
how the VCS actually *stores* the diffs.
I've not integrated wdiff with monotone's external diff hooks, but I
don't see why it couldn't be done.
Ethan
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