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 bevy/egui desktop app for performing version-based line sorting, and blank-line cleanup of line-delimited data.
 
-![dsort screenshot](demo.gif "dsort")
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 this is designed and built specifically for one single person, to help make their life simpler - this is not general-purpose, or one-size-fits all.
 
 ## release process
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