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by wizzwizz4 2123 days ago
You have to save, close, re-open, save, close, re-open a few times before the diffs stabilise – and even then it'll seemingly-arbitrarily rename all the tags.

I recommend having a commit hook that (somewhat) pretty-prints and line-wraps the XML – perhaps splitting on sentences too, so that adding a word doesn't proliferate all down the page. I haven't tried this, though, so it might not help. If you do, could you release the code?