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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> ...
>> Remember git's history.
>
> On the other hand instead of doing binary diffs from a scratch, git uses
> [customized] LibXDiff library. The same might be done with bstring library,
> I think.

I am very much in favor of reusing code that aleady proved
itself in the field outside git's context.