On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Paolo Bolzoni wrote: > Maybe joining both ideas? Like coloring the whole word of a more neutral > color and the difference with the usual bright color? > > I think it would be the best as I agree with both point of views.
Fwiw, I'd prefer only the per-character differences to be highlighted. I quite like what 'meld' does, and that's what I'd like fossil to look like. :) Regards, Lluís. > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Martijn Coppoolse > <li...@martijn.coppoolse.com> wrote: > > On 17-12-2012 8:33, Baruch Burstein wrote: > >> > >> Another suggestion: > >> Since visual diffs are always for text files (I think), it doesn't make > >> much sense to mark partial words as changed. If the whole word is not > >> unchanged, then the whole word is changed. I am referring to things like > >> line 73817 on the left in the fourth link below. > > > > > > Respectfully disagree. > > > > The line you refer to works perfectly fine; I see no reason to reduce > > granularity to word level, and every reason to keep it the way it works now: > > if a word is partially changed, I like to see _what_ part was changed. > > > > IMO, diff highlighting should highlight changes, not words. I can recognize > > words by myself just fine; seeing what exactly changed is what I need the > > highlighting for. > > > > Also, in my case (at least), visual diffs are usually for text files > > representing source code. In code, especially for a case-sensitive language, > > a change to a single character can be crucial. Reducing highlighting to > > only indicate changes per word makes it more difficult to see this. > > > > > > > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org > >> <mailto:d...@sqlite.org>> wrote: > >> > >> Reposted from fossil-dev: > >> > >> OLD: http://www2.sqlite.org/src/ci/52e755943f?sbs=1#chunk1 > >> NEW: http://www.sqlite.org/src/ci/52e755943f?sbs=1#chunk1 > >> > >> OLD: > >> > >> http://www2.fossil-scm.org/fossil/fdiff?v1=955cc67ace8fb622&v2=e2e1c87b86664b45#chunk24 > >> NEW: > >> > >> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/fdiff?v1=955cc67ace8fb622&v2=e2e1c87b86664b45#chunk24 > >> > > > >> -- > >> ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎɟı > > > > > > ˙pɐǝɥ ʎɯ uo buıʇʇıs uǝɥʍ ǝuıɟ ʇsnظ uʍop ǝpısdn pɐǝɹ uɐɔ ı ¡ʎןןıs ǝq ʇ’uop > > > > -- > > Martijn Coppoolse > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
