>> As seen in SQLite Documentation pages in checkin 424fd15707 ( >> http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/info/424fd15707) >> diffing two versions of html file (art/syntax/all-bnf.html) yields "cannot >> compute difference between binary files" ( >> http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/fdiff?v1=873cf35adf14cf34&v2=e16f52bc1f249e5b&sbs=1 >> ) >> I think it is related to the length of the line in the file (approx 8600 >> characters) but still I believe fossil could do better that this. Is it >> possible to show diffs event for files with long lines? >> > >The diff-generator in Fossil is unable to cope with lines longer than 8192 >bytes. > >That could be changed. (It's a #define, though there are adverse >consequences for making it too large.) But is a diff on a file with huge >lines like that really useful? Would a human be able to understand such a >diff?
Thank you for the explanation. What intrigues me that it states "binary file" even if file is clearly a text file. While seeking to see a diff I like to check what the difference is. And than it is certainly a matter of way how such change in long line is presented. If a change in huge line is just small perhaps the display could be constructed in similar way as is for "regular" diff on short lines (with omission of matching parts) Just a rough idea. Thank you for fossil. Peter _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
