Understanding diffsitter: A Tool for Semantic Diffs Based on AST
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Summary
diffsitter is a tool that creates semantically meaningful diffs by computing the difference on the abstract syntax tree (AST) of a file rather than the text contents. It uses parsers from the tree-sitter project and supports languages compatible with tree-sitter.
Key quotes
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"Contributions are always welcome!"
"diffsitter uses the parsers from the tree-sitter project to parse source code."
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