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 No. AST merging is a hard problem that difftastic does not address.
 
-AST diffing is a also lossy process from the perspective of a text
+AST diffing is a lossy process from the perspective of a text
 diff. Difftastic will ignore whitespace that isn't syntactically
 significant, but merging requires tracking whitespace.