> On 2022-10-01 at 18:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> For example: as soon as you've had more than one change in the > >> entire history of the document, you need to start considering what > >> the previous version against which you're showing differences is. > >> If you try to do it against all of them, it very quickly becomes > >> unwieldy; if you try to do > > > > For me the better option is to point to a version of the file with > > all its VCS history so people can see what's been changed when. > > Yes, but for a tiny and rarely-updated document like this that's even > *more* clearly overkill.
If the document were maintained using technology such as a wiki (with restricted edit permissions) then the wiki underpinnings would maintain the edit history automatically. A link to the wiki page and a statement as to whether there were any recent changes would then be sufficient, I think.