Re: [fossil-users] html file - "cannot compute difference between binary files"
On 10/03/2014 22:24, Richard Hipp wrote: 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? That would depend on how the diff is presented. As two long lines? No, I doubt a human could. But if you present the diff as two wrapped lines side by side diff A | diff B and wrapped each at say 35 chars with a clear border and space down the middle and highlighted using colour each difference I can see that working even on a 80 char wide console. But equally, the diff command is used to present a difference between files. A human might not care about understanding it, as long as patch(1) does. Roy ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] html file - "cannot compute difference between binary files"
>> 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 fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] html file - "cannot compute difference between binary files"
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Petr Ferdus wrote: > Hello, > > 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? -- 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] html file - "cannot compute difference between binary files"
Hello, 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? Thanks. Peter ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
