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Old 06-30-2017, 09:05 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I looked into it and undoing a single change is more work than I am willing to put in, sorry. Basically, to make it work well one has to both robustly reverse the change at the location in the file and then either re-compute the entire diff or update the diff. The first is very slow for large diffs and the second is fairly involved to get right, because all the line numbers for subsequent changes will have changed.

OK, thanks for looking into it

I agree that the benefits would out weigh a significant development effort and I'm sure that you have much more important things to do.

I was just hoping it'd be one of those famous 2-3 line changes
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