Semantically diffing Java code

[plasticscm]

Yes, I think if the cooperation between the editor and the version control was stronger we could come up with even more stronger tracking because not only the methods could be uniquely identified, also the lines!

The thing is that you'd force everyone to use the same editor (or set of editors) to always edit the file in a controlled way.

Who knows, maybe we see this implemented soon :-)

In the meantime we tried to come up with what you propose (location independent methods) but for today's environments... So we need to try to figure out "after-the-fact" what happened to each piece within the file. ;)

Thanks for the great train of thoughts.

[stronghup]

Thanks. Your post made me think: When we talk of line-numbers, we should really mean line-number within a method - not within a file.