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299 points DataOverload | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 17:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.483s | source
1. iwwr ◴[18 Oct 24 16:25 UTC] No.41880913[source]▶
What about auto-formatting the json and sorting all keys, to create some kind of canonical form? Then we can use standard textual patch.
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2. _blk ◴[18 Oct 24 17:08 UTC] No.41881374[source]▶
Standard text patches (diffs) are great because they work with all text files but for a specific representation like JSON you can do a lot better. In terms of code volume it's a lot lighter to find a node based on a json path than applying a diff.