# Transclusion is… transclusion is a diff: it shows us how to get from one version to another & which pieces were preserved * * * ### Transclusion is… transclusion is a diff: it shows us how to get from one version to another & which pieces were preserved transclusion is compression: when a piece of text is repeated but has A origin, we only store it once and we only fetch it once transclusion is attribution: it concretely shows where we got ideas, and acts in of itself as a means of crediting the original sources transclusion is a doorway to related documents: documents that transclude from the same source are visible (Originally posted here: ) By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [December 31, 2017](https://medium.com/p/368cc2d3422e). [Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/transclusion-is-368cc2d3422e) Exported from [Medium](https://medium.com) on September 18, 2020.