On: Lessons from Plain Text

[eviks]

> Soft-wrapping also limits the use of diffability

there are better tools for that that show word-based diff instead of a huge block. There aren't such tools that can convert your hard-coded linebreaks back.

[Zamiel_Snawley → eviks]

Even with just regular git on the command line, there is an option for word-wise diffing, and hacky ways to get character-wise diffing.