Re: [fossil-dev] A difficult "diff" case

2017-06-12 Thread Richard Hipp
On 6/12/17, Andy Bradford wrote: > > Regarding the extraordinarily long lines, I'm not sure what is > considered extraordinary, 8,000 characters. 250 characters lines, while difficult for humans to read, are not all that long. The side-by-side diff utility does begin having problems

Re: [fossil-dev] A difficult "diff" case

2017-06-12 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Richard Hipp on Mon, 12 Jun 2017 05:02:15 +0200: > Do you still have that pair of files, and can you share them? I might still have them. I'll see if I can find them and report back. Regarding the extraordinarily long lines, I'm not sure what is considered extraordinary, bu

Re: [fossil-dev] A difficult "diff" case

2017-06-11 Thread Richard Hipp
On 6/12/17, Andy Bradford wrote: > > I had a similar problem where I needed an accurate side-by-side diff on > a pair of files that Fossil struggled with. Do you still have that pair of files, and can you share them? Because, I don't understand how the LENGTH_MASK_SZ would help, unless one or

Re: [fossil-dev] A difficult "diff" case

2017-06-11 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Richard Hipp on Sun, 11 Jun 2017 22:58:00 +0200: > I added an experimental option to Fossil's diff-er, the --yy option, > that runs slower but does a better job. It still need improvement > though. You can compare as follows: I had a similar problem where I needed an accurate si