On 07.03.2014, at 09:08, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goub...@cea.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> Le 06/03/2014 23:01, Max Leske a écrit :
>> 
>> On 06.03.2014, at 22:14, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:eliot.mira...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> the tail wags the dog.  if the diff facilities in things like git were
>>> well-designed they'd be pluggable and allow one to parse files into
>>> meaningful chunks.
> 
> Can be done for git diffing and large files, so no need to push the blame on 
> git. We just need someone to write the tools in Smalltalk.
> 
>>> But why do you need command-line diff tools?
>> 
>> We don’t. Diffing has nothing to do with this (or only little). But if a
>> method has its own file, then the hash of that method will be stable as
>> long as it is unchanged, regardless of the number of commits it is
>> referenced by. This makes it very easy to identify the changes that have
>> been made to a particular method. How these changes are *visualized* is
>> a different matter (and I would like to have a nice GUI for that too).
> 
> I do have a version browser for that; but it plays with git at a bit too high 
> level to be as powerfull as you describe.

Is it on Smalltalkhub? I’d like to take a look if you let me.

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