From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michał Kiedrowicz" <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:24:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210202450.GC5504@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202101555.20163.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:55:19PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 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...
Yeah, you might be able to get better results out of a real diff engine
(i.e., having "git diff" do the color by doing a real LCS-match) than
out of diff-highlight (which is really just a couple of simple
heuristics). OTOH, the heuristics sometimes make the result "less noisy"
because they don't find little bits of commonality, and instead
highlight only a single chunk per line.
So if somebody wanted to work on that, I'd be really curious to see if
they could get better results. It's not high enough priority for me
personally, as I find diff-highlight is "good enough".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-10 20:24 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
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 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-02-14 6:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff 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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