From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
<git@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:33:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011081733.06502.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqlj53zuum.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> writes:
>
> > Lastly, the "porcelain" word-diff format seems a bit weird to me. Is
> > the format specified somewhere, or are there any programs that use it
> > currently? I couldn't find any users inside the git.git tree itself?
>
> There's a pending patch for "gitk --color-words". Actually, the
> porcelain format was precisely implemented to allow this patch to
> exist IIRC.
Also, my intent was to specify the format fully under its option
description. It's rather simple, but if you think the
explanation/definition is inadequate, please provide a patch. We'd
really want the writers of consumers (GUIs and such) to be very clear
about how it is formatted.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-08 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 15:16 Understanding and improving --word-diff Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-08 15:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-08 15:49 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-08 16:33 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-11-08 17:35 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-11-08 19:22 ` Thomas Rast
2010-11-09 22:01 ` Jeff King
2010-11-10 0:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-11-10 4:17 ` Jeff King
2010-11-18 6:40 ` Jeff King
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