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1. You have told him about the car accident.
2. You have been telling him about the car accident.
What's the difference in meaning between the above two sentences?
But if you have been telling him, then that might imply that you have not finished telling him; you are still in the middle of telling him, and there is still more of the story to be told.
Sentence 2 may or may not be completed, and suggests that the 'telling' has continued right up to now.