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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Line diff fragments, custom colour markers and word change highlighting
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:57:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090131065742.GA3033@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640901301244s34d94e0fka00ce2eb6f6bef48@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:44:26PM +0000, Reece Dunn wrote:

> At the moment, I am manually editing the output of git diff to produce
> the desired output. I intend on modifying git to get it to produce the
> output in a format that I am interested in so that I don't have to
> edit it by hand.

Have you considered writing an external diff driver (see the description
of GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF in git(1))? That would be a good starting point for
experimenting if you want to use a totally different diff driver (but if
you are just making tweaks to git's diff code, then obviously that isn't
a good idea).

Your RFCs look more like tweaks, but I wonder if there isn't already a
good external tool for doing these sorts of non-line-oriented diffs.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-31  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 20:44 [RFC] Line diff fragments, custom colour markers and word change highlighting Reece Dunn
2009-01-31  6:57 ` Jeff King [this message]

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