Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > A ChangeLog entry is far easier to process by a human, than a large
  > diff.  For some languages the diffs become really ugly, specially for
  > example Lisp.

Is there a way to make VCS provide more useful diffs for Lisp?

Is the problem that in Lisp we often change the indentation level
of many lines without actually changing them?  If so, then if only we
had a way to specify one of the "ignore indentation" flags of diff,
would that improve this?

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