From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:33:06 +0100 Message-ID: <201011081733.06502.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <20101108151601.GF22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthieu Moy , , Johannes Schindelin To: Matthijs Kooijman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 08 17:33:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFUei-0007eN-Pi for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:33:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224Ab0KHQdK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:33:10 -0500 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:53236 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754081Ab0KHQdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:33:09 -0500 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:33:06 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:33:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-90-desktop; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Matthijs Kooijman 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