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Using the {{diff}}, {{diff_added}}, and {{diff_removed}} notification tokens
What decides if a line is an addition, or a change, or a removal? The python diff() algorithm and how it perceives each change. It will not always provide consistent results.
In some cases, an addition or deletion might get detected as a change. So, in the notifications, lines that start with (into)
might actually be new additions, and lines that start with (changed)
might actually be lines that were removed from the page.
Example1:
In that example, Version 1.19.2-4.5.5 was removed from the page and Version 1.19.2-4.5.6 was added to the page. These lines are displayed in a table with the most recent one on the top. This caused the new lines to be detected as a change instead of an addition.
Example2:
In that example, the lines are also in a table with the most recent one on top. In the previous snapshot, the table was populated with the lines starting with (changed)
. In the current snapshot, the table only has a single entry which is the lines starting with (into)
. Yet in the notification, the removed lines start with (changed)
and the new lines start with (into)
.
Lines that start with (changed)
or (into)
may also refer to lines that were already on the page that simply moved to a different place on the page.