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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 06:03:30 +1000
Subject: Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> wrote:
> IMO, until git's successor tracks content-_not_-delimited-by-linefeeds,
> languages will continue to work that way.

Linefeeds are nothing to git - it tracks the entire content of the
file. When you ask to see the diff between two versions of a file,
that's when lines start to have meaning - and if you configure in your
own difftool, you're welcome to compare files in arbitrary ways. It's
not for the sake of source control that code is in lines of text -
it's for the sake of humans.

ChrisA