From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:17:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110041705.GB8955@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1011100102540.2226@bonsai2>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:05:56AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Yeah, as you figured out, word diff is really about formats that aren't
> > line oriented.
>
> Not really correct. While the _current_ way to show word diffs is
> imitating GNU wdiff, the internal data structure does allow for more
> sophisticated output.
Fair enough. I was basing my statement on the output. If somebody would
like to demonstrate how the code can be used to get line-oriented diffs
with highlighting, I would be very happy to eat my words. :)
> P.S.: Peff, I hope you're fine with me responding to the first sentence
> only. After all, you know that my attention span is 7.2 seconds.
Heh. I am happy you responded at all. You are very quiet these days. :)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 15:16 Understanding and improving --word-diff Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-08 15:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-08 15:49 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-08 16:33 ` Thomas Rast
2010-11-08 17:35 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-11-08 19:22 ` Thomas Rast
2010-11-09 22:01 ` Jeff King
2010-11-10 0:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-11-10 4:17 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-11-18 6:40 ` Jeff King
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