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Hi Dmitri, I know what you are saying, but in the end I think we are lucky if diffs against project files have any meaningful information. Nobody right now assumes responsibility for regularly updating the VS files, so we routinely get patches from different people when they decide to upgrade the project files, and these patches change the .sln files in arbitrary ways. If you have

If you look at an .sln file, there's a long sequence of digits associated with every project, something like this 8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942. For the lack of a better word I called it "encoding". After I changed the dependencies between projects in the solution, msvs replaced those numeric sequences by new ones literally for every project in the solution file. The diff now