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b0a04gllast Wednesday at 2:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

tbh this feels like overengineering the wrong pain. devs aren't begging for more metadata in diffs .. they're begging for tooling that doesn't explode when someone renames a file or changes line endings. most teams can't even agree on commit message formats, and now we're gonna throw structured diff metadata into the mix? cool idea, but feels like a clean spec solving a messy human problem. the chaos isn't in the diff format/, it's in the humans using it.