alt Hacker NewsSorry for the absolute wall of text (I tried nesting things under bullet points but that didn't work out well). Hopefully some of that is useful.
Key point: Much of this is about solving issues with tools that work with the varying file formats of diffs. It's not really something end users should ever have to care about.
It's really useful, thanks.
I think the original post left people a bit confused on why it exists but you explained it really clearly here.