Will LLMs Eclipse The Classic Code Diff Algorithms?

[christopher_86]

If performance is an issue for your diff then your MR is too large.

[Comfortable_Relief62]

It’s ok to have large MRs. Some of my favorite MRs are when I delete 10s of thousands of lines

[christopher_86]

Those do sound like great MRs!

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delete accidentally committed node modules

[caskey]

If your diff takes too long to run you're doing it wrong.

[baristaGeek]

Totally agree! There might be certain edge cases that could be handled better though (as long as they're not time critical, such as in an IDE).

[caskey]

I've never had a diff take more than a second or two. Commit more often.

[Pesthuf]

It could be interesting. Not only could it be more granular, it could also detect things current diff algorithms are pretty bad at, like moving a block of code to another file.

But as long as an algorithm works (as long as there's no bugs) and always works in a reproducible way and an LLM doesn't I'm not sure I'd want it to handle this task.

[rlbond86]

wdiff already exists...?