From: "Michał Kiedrowicz" <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:33:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210183319.2f56ff88@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202101555.20163.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Michał Kiedrowicz wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > The code that comares lines is based on
> > > > contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight, except that it works with
> > > > multiline changes too. It also won't highlight lines that are
> > > > completely different because that would only make the output unreadable.
> > > > Combined diffs are not supported but a following commit will change it.
> > >
> > > I was thinking that if gitweb were to support "diff refinement
> > > highlighting", it would either use one of *Diff* packages from CPAN,
> > > or "git diff --word-diff" output.
> >
> > I think highlighting inline and side-by-side diff outputs is
> > something different from "git diff --word-diff". I find it useful for
> > people who are used to these diff formats (i.e. me :).
>
> I was thinking about *using* "git diff --word-diff" for diff refinement
> highlighting of inline (unified) and side-by-side diff...
>
Then I must have misunderstood you.
> though having an option of showing word-diff would be I think a good
> idea in some cases, like e.g. documentation changes.
>
> > OTOH I'm not against using a dedicated package from CPAN. But I think
> > my approach is proven to work (I use contrib/diff-highlight as a
> > filter) and more lightweight (doesn't add another dependency to
> > gitweb). Moreover, adding support for some Diff package may be done
> > later, at any moment. It's just a matter of replacing one function
> > (format_rem_add_line()) with the one that uses Diff.
>
> O.K., if it is tested code, then all is good.
As I wrote, I haven't taken the code as-is (for example, original
code only works for oneline changes). But the general approach is the
same.
> Well, except the fact
> that I'm rather wary about adding more code to gitweb when it is still
> single monolithic script, rather than split into packages.
>
Yeah, jumping between 2k'th and 5k'th line isn't a great fun. Do you
have any roadmap how to split gitweb?
> Anyway, I'll try to review those patches soon. I like the refactoring
> work (that is from what I had chance to examine).
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-10 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-10 9:18 [PATCH 0/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] gitweb: Extract print_sidebyside_diff_lines() Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 15:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 23:03 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] gitweb: Use print_diff_chunk() for both side-by-side and inline diffs Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 15:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 23:16 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-25 9:00 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] gitweb: Move HTML-formatting diff line back to process_diff_line() Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 16:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] gitweb: Push formatting diff lines to print_diff_chunk() Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 16:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 23:20 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 23:30 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] gitweb: Format diff lines just before printing Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 17:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 23:38 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 13:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-10 14:15 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 14:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-10 17:33 ` Michał Kiedrowicz [this message]
2012-02-10 22:52 ` Splitting gitweb (was: Re: [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff) Jakub Narebski
2012-02-10 20:24 ` [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff Jeff King
2012-02-14 6:54 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-14 7:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 8:20 ` Jeff King
2012-02-10 20:20 ` Jeff King
2012-02-10 21:29 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 21:32 ` Jeff King
2012-02-10 21:36 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 21:47 ` [PATCH] diff-highlight: Work for multiline changes too Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-13 22:27 ` Jeff King
2012-02-13 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] diff-highlight: make perl strict and warnings fatal Jeff King
2012-02-13 22:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] diff-highlight: don't highlight whole lines Jeff King
2012-02-14 6:35 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-13 22:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] diff-highlight: refactor to prepare for multi-line hunks Jeff King
2012-02-13 22:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] diff-highlight: match " Jeff King
2012-02-13 22:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] diff-highlight: document some non-optimal cases Jeff King
2012-02-14 6:48 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-14 0:05 ` [PATCH] diff-highlight: Work for multiline changes too Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 0:22 ` Jeff King
2012-02-14 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 6:04 ` Jeff King
2012-02-14 6:28 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 21:56 ` [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 23:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-12 10:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-13 6:54 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-13 19:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-13 21:10 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-13 6:41 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-13 18:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-13 21:09 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-14 17:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-14 18:23 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-14 18:52 ` Jeff King
2012-02-14 20:04 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-14 20:38 ` Jeff King
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] gitweb: Use different colors to present marked changes Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-12 0:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-13 6:46 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-10 9:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] gitweb: Highlight combined diffs Michał Kiedrowicz
2012-02-12 0:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-13 6:48 ` Michal Kiedrowicz
2012-02-11 18:32 ` [PATCH 0/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 22:56 ` Michał Kiedrowicz
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