Support character-by-character diffs in commit views
Reported by Alex Coles | March 31st, 2008 @ 08:59 PM
Feature request is to support additional highlighting to show differences on a character-by-character basis, not just line-by-line.
This feature is inspired by Atlassian's FishEye:
http://www.atlassian.com/softwar...
Of course, I do not know if this would be straightforward to implement. I am presuming GitHub's diff functionality wraps around the 'git diff' command somehow (since GitHub uses grit).
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Alex Coles April 4th, 2008 @ 11:45 AM
Just to add (although I had forgotten this) that this is something also supported in Trac:
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Tom Preston-Werner April 8th, 2008 @ 02:01 AM
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- → Assigned user changed from “defunkt” to “Tom Preston-Werner”
- → State changed from “new” to “open”
I'm on it! The Trac char-wise diff is a very simple left/right differentiation technique. Easy enough. Look for this post-launch.
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Thomas Aylott April 14th, 2008 @ 02:21 AM
Any change of getting that char-by-char diff functionality released for others to use somehow? I'm working on a git gui thing for textmate. Thanks.
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Tom Preston-Werner July 13th, 2008 @ 11:17 PM
- → State changed from “open” to “resolved”
- → Tag changed from “” to “feature ui”
This is implemented and will show up on site after next deploy. An example can be found at the bottom of
http://github.com/mojombo/grit/c...
(won't work until we deploy again)
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