Fully agree, the colored one suffers from being cluttered. If the retro one grayed the changed line to slightly highlight it, it would help a lot.
Shameless plug: Diff tool with built in Fossil support: http://eskil.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/trunk/htdocs/fossil.wiki /Peter On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Matt Welland <estifo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seconded. The hidden lines receive more emphasis than the change. Do a > tkdiff on the same change and it is immediately obvious what the change is. > I checked meld, tkdiff and xxdiff and in all of them the actual character > that was removed is also highlighted making it immediately obvious what > changed. It was not immediately obvious to me what changed in either the > colored or retro examples. If fossil can't easily match the capability of an > external tool then my vote would be to go with the retro. > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Ramon Ribó <ram...@compassis.com> wrote: >> >> For me, much better with the colors. Maybe taking out the violet of the >> hidden lines. >> It helps a lot to focus the attention to the correct place. >> >> RR >> >> El 04/02/2012 13:24, "Richard Hipp" <d...@sqlite.org> escribió: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:08 AM, <altufa...@mail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Same here. I like the colorful diff. >>>> >>>> But I would like to know (sorry if I missed) what's the problem with >>>> color sbs and what are we getting with retro sbs? >>> >>> >>> Here is an example, two different websites showing the same Fossil >>> project (TCL), one with the traditional colorful diff and the other with the >>> new retro diff: >>> >>> (1) http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ci/4ebc3a8e1e?sbs=1 >>> (2) http://mirror1.tcl.tk/tcl/ci/4ebc3a8e1e?sbs=1&dw=67 >>> >>> The change of this check-in is a single line of code - indeed a single >>> character on that one line. With (1), my eyes are distracted by a bunch of >>> needless coloration, and I have to stare at the screen for a second or two >>> before I can discern what has actually changed. I tried using colored diffs >>> for a while, but I eventually gave up in frustration. They are simply not >>> useful to me. I can read the old-style unified diffs faster. In (2), on the >>> other hand, I can clearly and immediately see that one line has changed. >>> The change "pops" out at me. I don't have to think about it - it is just >>> there. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> - Altu >>>> >>>> > ----- Original Message ----- >>>> > From: Weber, Martin S >>>> > Sent: 02/03/12 11:03 PM >>>> > To: Fossil SCM user's discussion >>>> > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs >>>> > >>>> > On 2012-02-03 12:31 , "Remigiusz Modrzejewski" <l...@maxnet.org.pl> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > >>>> > >I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in >>>> > > the >>>> > >thread. >>>> > >>>> > Same here. >>>> > >>>> > -Martin >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > fossil-users mailing list >>>> > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >>>> > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >>>> > >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> fossil-users mailing list >>>> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >>>> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> D. Richard Hipp >>> d...@sqlite.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fossil-users mailing list >>> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >>> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
