Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
... it seems rather silly that we have xdiff generate a string
just so that we can parse it from within the same process. So instead I
improved the xdiff interface to pass the actual integers out, made use
of it as appropriate, and then in the final patch we can just drop the
buggy function entirely.
Acked-by: me.
Thanks. This is exactly what I wanted to do for a very long time,
ever since I did the original xdiff-interface.c