[benatkin]

Most things like patch would still use line diff. I think I would want this semantic diff in the merge request review and the logs. It could have definitions distributed with the syntax highlighters in language plugins in an editor/IDE, git CLI, and git forge.

[from-nibly]

So GitHub, git lab, gutbucket, gittea (and its 50 forks), fossil, and all the other tools should change, not the formatting of the code?

[benatkin]

No, having a concise separator is still preferable to saving a line in a diff.