This isn't on the immediate roadmap, so don't hold your breath. We have a
lot of things on our plates right now for the 3.0 and 4.0 releases.

Christian

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 5:32 AM, <eugene.fedu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> Thank you for a quick answer.
> We are really looking forward to obtain new ReviewBoard release with
> enhanced diff algorithms. :-)
>
> Eugene
>
> среда, 25 мая 2016 г., 22:12:08 UTC+3 пользователь Christian Hammond
> написал:
>>
>> Hi Eugene,
>>
>> This isn't actually a bug. Rather, it's just how the Myers Diff Algorithm
>> (that used by us, GNU diff, and many other tools) chose to represent this
>> particular change. It decided that there was just enough similarity, given
>> the lines and surrounding content, to mark it as a replaced line instead of
>> a delete and remove. Each thing on the left was replaced by a thing on the
>> right, as far as it sees.
>>
>> Diff algorithms don't *always* generate the best diff for a human's
>> consumption, but usually it's pretty close, or close enough. There are
>> other algorithms that sometimes help better in some cases like these, and
>> we're brainstorming about how best to implement those as alternatives in
>> the future.
>>
>> Christian
>>
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>> Makers of Review Board <https://www.reviewboard.org/>
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:21 AM, <eugene....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have ReviewBoard 2.5.3 installed via Bitnami installer "Review Board 
>>> 2.5.4-0.exe" on Windows Server 2008 R2.
>>>
>>> I do the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>    1. Commit new file test.cs to SVN repository (revision/file
>>>    extension 142004 in attach).
>>>    2. Commit changed file test.cs to SVN (revision/file extension
>>>    142005 in attach).
>>>    3. Create diff for the latest commit ("svn diff -c 142005 >
>>>    diff-142005").
>>>    4. Create review request based on prepared diff ("rbt post
>>>    --diff-file diff-142005").
>>>    5. Open created review request in diff tab (Chrome/Firefox on
>>>    Windows 7).
>>>
>>> I expect that line with function "public byte[] Buffer(...) {...}" should 
>>> be highlighted as new code block (green).
>>> Instead *new line is highlighted as changed lines* (yellow).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Both revisions if file test.cs and generated diff are attached.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>>
>>> -- Eugene
>>>
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