diff-highlight (was: Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.)

2019-03-25 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2019-03-22 15:34, Adam Borowski wrote: > There's an implementation of this in "git" itself already, named > diff-highlight. Alas, either I'm a complete idiot, or its > documentation is not quite adequate -- some time ago I wasted over > an hour

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Mo Zhou
control: reassign -1 git control: severity -1 wishlist control: retitle -1 please privde separated binary package for diff-highlight On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:51:14AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 07:41:06 +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > In fact the diff-highlight (denoted > > a

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 07:41:06 +, Mo Zhou wrote: > In fact the diff-highlight (denoted > as 'DH' below, not your favorite debhelper) shipped in the git package > is able to produce similar result compared to diff-so-fancy (denoted as 'DSF' > below), except for > > * DH doesn't mangle standard

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Mo Zhou
Hello guys, To my surprise multiple people expressed their interest in productivity-friendly diff highlighting. So let me write a brief summary on this topic, after some investigation. Mattia told me privately about the alternative of diff-so-fancy: diff a b | colordiff | diff-highlight | les

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:34:37 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > It makes my life very much easier as I heavily depend on git and diff; > > and should definitely enter the archive as I cannot find any alternative. > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. FWIW, there's ccdiff (

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [snip] > > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. > > > > There's an implementation of this in "git" itself already, named > > diff-highlight.

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [snip] > > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. > > > > There's an implementation of this in "git" itself already, named > > diff-highlight.

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: [snip] > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. > > There's an implementation of this in "git" itself already, named > diff-highlight. Alas, either I'm a complete idiot, or its documentation is > not quite adeq

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 01:46:33PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > * Package name: diff-so-fancy > * URL : https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy > Description : Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. ♥ the short desc. Please keep it for the archive :) > This

Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: diff-so-fancy Version : 1.2.5 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy * License : MIT Programming Lang: Perl Description : Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… Th