alt Hacker NewsI wonder how much room this leaves for unintended, not shown changes. E.g. Excel is a complex format that allows all sort of metadata and embeddings that would not always seem as cell changes ...
I wonder how much room this leaves for unintended, not shown changes. E.g. Excel is a complex format that allows all sort of metadata and embeddings that would not always seem as cell changes ...
Depends on the diff you render and what the plugin tracks.
In general, lix gives in API to track changes in any file format (via plugins). The "diff noise" thus depends on a) the plugin i.e. does it track them metadata? and b) what is rendered as the diff.
If the user doesn't care about seeing a diff of metadata in Excel, don't render the metadata in the diff. The latter is trivial because diffing in lix is just a SQL query.