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I just explained why that question is nonsensical. What do you hope to achieve by repeating it?



You said:

> Everything outside of notepad already supports it—that was the point, dumbass.

As a response to me pointing out that it's not supported in the GitHub diff view. That response is nonsensical unless you meant to say that it's supported in the GitHub diff view.


No one is using block markers or indentation guides in a diff view because that doesn’t make sense. The two+ views would conflict with each other, so vast majority of such tools don’t even try to understand blocks. (difftastic however, on the terminal tries.)

If a diff is particularly complex (it shouldn’t but assuming) you’ll need to look at the destination in full and confirm tests etc have passed.

Any non-theoretical issues you’d like to discuss?


Let me try again.

You said:

> Everything outside of notepad already supports it—that was the point, dumbass.

As a response to me pointing out that it's not supported in the GitHub diff view. That response is nonsensical unless you meant to say that it's supported in the GitHub diff view


It's clear that my original statement referred to editors of source code. You then moved the goal posts to "merge diff" views on a website.

Despite that, I explained this didn't make sense, diffs being line-based and not block-based and all that.

That's two fundamental problems with your line of argument. This is my last reply.


Let me try again.

You said:

> Everything outside of notepad already supports it—that was the point, dumbass.

As a response to me pointing out that it's not supported in the GitHub diff view. That response is nonsensical unless you meant to say that it's supported in the GitHub diff view




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