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David Kastrup wrote:

> "Reece Dunn" <msclrhd@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Which is good, as this means that along with the tests in the
>> library, it will be more stable and less likely to be buggy than
>> something that is written from scratch.
> 
> 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.

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Jakub Narebski
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