Edit histories and their diffs

PJH

Continuing the discussion from Edit pencils:

Did you actually delete the word and replaced it, or did you just append the "2"?

Filed Under: How does Diff work, I don't even

It'll be the latter. The forum diff leaves a lot to be desired. I've found that making minor edits to the FAQs result in massive diffs around content that hasn't changed.

JBert

It doesn't contain a mixture of Linux and Windows endlines by any chance, or some unholy blend of tabs and spaces?

dkf

@PJH said:

The forum diff leaves a lot to be desired.

So it's a duff diff?

HardwareGeek

@JBert said:

It doesn't contain a mixture of Linux and Windows endlines by any chance, or some unholy blend of tabs and spaces?

It just shows things like

foo 10 bar foo 10 bar

No sense to the change, at all.