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[Feature]: diffsitter instead of diff

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#441 opened on Mar 9, 2026

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Description

Reduces semantically meaningless information that only consumes tokens using diffsitter.

So instead of using diff, we can return diffsitter's reduced output https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

Only for supported languages: Bash C# C++ CSS Go Java OCaml PHP Python Ruby Rust Typescript/TSX HCL

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Research direction
Explore the current diff implementation in the codebase and understand how diffsitter works. Then integrate diffsitter as an optional dependency, replacing diff for supported languages.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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RustGit
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