Re: RFC: git diff colorization idea

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:

> Lately I've been wishing that Git's diff output were colorized in a
> way that combines the standard line-by-line colorizing with the word-
> by-word colorizing you get with --color-words.

I like this idea, also because Emacs ediff / ediff3 / emerge uses it,
from what I understand under the name of 'refinement'.

> 
> Pictures speak louder than words, so here are some to show what I mean:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/wincent-colaiuta/sets/72157612877491482/
>
[...]

There was some discussion in this thread on how to do this, whether
with --refine / --color-chars we shoud ony highlight differences, or
whether for example use reverse (i.e. background green or background
red), or other red / other green, or perhaps bold, or perhaps
underline to highlight regions in line which differ

> - Meld: http://meld.sourceforge.net/meld_file1.png

Not extremly good example, as it uses equivalent of context diff
format (-,+,!) with added, removed and _changed_ lines, and not
unified diff format (only added / removed lines).

> Would people be interested in seeing this feature go in? [...]

+1 from me
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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