tip to review a large patch with magit and ediff

When reviewing a large changeset with magit, it can be difficult to separate meaningfull changes from purely syntactic substitutions. Using ediff to navigate the patch highlights the words changed between two lines instead of just showing a line removed and another added.

In the above screenshot the oid change to oid.hobj is a syntactic change where the new block after oid.generation != ghobject_t::NO_GEN deserves more attention.
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