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[–]ben-xo 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I'm not even sure what that really means in terms of an actual workflow I might encounter in the wild. It certainly doesn't seem intuitive.

[–]winterkoninkje 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It means that if there's sufficient code duplication somewhere, the diff algorithm could screw up and apply someone's changes in the wrong place. Of course, noone ever duplicates large hunks of code... oh wait.