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Re: Using VC for change descriptions


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Using VC for change descriptions
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:18:29 -0500

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  > A ChangeLog entry is far easier to process by a human, than a large
  > diff.  For some languages the diffs become really ugly, specially for
  > example Lisp.

Is there a way to make VCS provide more useful diffs for Lisp?

Is the problem that in Lisp we often change the indentation level
of many lines without actually changing them?  If so, then if only we
had a way to specify one of the "ignore indentation" flags of diff,
would that improve this?

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