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by azernik 4692 days ago
That is never the error I see in line-based diffs; because they're taking a much larger chunk of text to be atomic and treat irrelevant characters as relevant, they tend to give false positives (seeing two lines as completely different when in fact they're slightly modified versions of each other; or seeing two blocks of text as different when one is a reflowed version of the other.)