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1 The files in this directory come from the xdiff implementation in git.
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2 You can find it here: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/xdiff
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3 The files were last updated 2018 September 10.
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5 This is originally based on libxdiff, which can be found here:
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6 http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff-lib.html
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8 The git version was used because it has been maintained and improved.
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9 And since it's part of git it is expected to be reliable.
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11 The code is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. It is included in the
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12 COPYING file.
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14 Changes in these files were made to avoid compiler warnings.
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16 The first work for including xdiff in Vim was done by Christian Brabandt.